Dec 2, 2023
"Does their consciousness youth in time as well?"
According to General Relativity two things would happen for a group traveling faster than light.
1. To one another - other crew members and passengers on board - they would be the same age as the others on-board.
2. When they returned to Earth they would be younger to older others or the others left behind may be dead.
And General Relatively says that the speed of light is a constant. Nothing can go faster than the speed of light. So there's that.