Puzzling violation of relativity?

Let's get some basic special relativity stuff out of the way first. If Steve travels at 0.99999c to a planet which is 4LY away and back, then the trip took him 8 years. That is, his wife and children would be 8 years older by the time he's rejoined them for breakfast. Meanwhile, the gamma factor is 0.00447, so for him, it's less than a 2 week trip. Now, the odd statement, "he went into the past", which is followed by the question, "Was Einstein wrong?" This comes close to being an example of what physicist Pauli once said, "This isn't even wrong!" In this scenario, Steve himself does not ever go into the past of either the Earth's rest frame nor his own moving frame. However, a technical argument can be made that when he reversed course from the planet to return home, part his EXTENDED moving frame dipped into the past on Earth. But this is a 100% abstraction, it actually has no physical meaning, because it presupposes the existence of a relativistic moving frame that is able to, in a blink of an eye, realign itself with the entire universe the moment he reversed course. As a matter of fact, because of this, the "Twin Paradox" is resolved, because in spite of a seeming symmetry, there isn't one, because such a sudden realignment of the relativistic moving frame only occurs with the moving twin, not with the one that stayed home.

So, the best answer to your question is, "No, Einstein's equations of special relativity are not wrong, as, technically speaking, part of Steve's moving frame went into the past back on Earth when he reversed course. However, as physics goes, it's a flawed concept leading to problems with accelerations that necessitated the development of general relativity."

Edit: For clarity, see link about the Lorentz transform, which are spacetime rotation matrices. Hopefully, that will shed some light on what is meant by "part of Steve's moving frame being in the past back on Earth". Just consider the simple transform from {x, t} to {x', t'}.

Edit 2: The Lorentz transform is the only kind of special relativity transform that I know of, I don't see how Steve can "travel into the past" using only special relativity considerations and not going faster than light. Maybe I'll learn something new from this.

Well, I'm glad to see that that you're now saying that he's two weeks older--it bothered me that it will still be time for his breakfast--so presumably he has had other meals in the interim.

If we're allowed somewhat unconventional thinking, we could presume that he has a non-traditional family. For all we know, his wife may be a computer program or video projection (in our more liberal future world marriage is not necessarily between a live man and woman, but could be between entities of various types) that he could pause or re-set to the moment when he left.

Another possibility (although in this one he doesn't really go into the past) is that his wife and family took a trip at the same time he did, only at a much higher rate of speed, so they aged less than he did. This is unappealing, however, since there are physical limits set on the acceleration that humans can withstand.

Steve is accelerated, so Steve's time dilates and slows down relative to his wife. His wife has approximately 8 years pass during Steve's trip to get coffee beans.

Nah man, nah

This man may have thought that his useless trip was quick but around him time continues.

Hence twin paradox.

I did not crunch the numbers but his breakfast may have been over or his permiscuous wife has remarried