[Jeema3000]

Right. Time/space dilation effectively makes the trip shorter for the person traveling near c.

Here's a really mind-blowing thing: If you were able to accelerate at a fairly reasonable rate indefinitely - say - using an interstellar ramjet, you could conceivably circumnavigate the entire universe within a human lifetime (in your own frame of reference, of course)

Of course, interstellar ramjets might not actually work in practice... but still, the concept of time/space dilation holds.

[nooneelse]

Last I heard from the hard science fiction people, such ramjets have an upper speed limit imposed by some sort of drag. Can't remember for certain... maybe Atomic Rockets has something on them... yeah, http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/slowerlight.php#Bussard_Ram... . They say 0.12c is the best speed for ramjets.