Reddit mentions of Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Unit R - Laws of Physics are Frame-Independent

The claim that "time is exactly like space" is not true. Time is treated as a dimension in Special Relativity (SR) and General Relativity (GR), but it is very different from the "usual" spatial dimensions. (It boils down to "distance" along the time direction being negative, but that statement doesn't really mean anything out of context.) The central idea of relativity is that while the entire four dimensional "thing" (spacetime) just is (is invariant), different observers will have different ideas about which way the time direction points; it turns out to be convenient for our description of nature to respect the natural "democratic" equivalence of all hypothetical observers.

I can point you to a couple of good resources:

This
is a very good, book about SR, and some "other stuff". It's pretty mathematical, and I wouldn't recommend it to someone who isn't totally comfortable with college level intro physics and calculus.

This
is the "standard" text for undergraduate SR; it's less demanding than the above, but uses mathematical language that won't translate immediately if you go on to study GR. (I have not read this myself.)

This is the book that I learned from; I thought it was pretty good.

This is Brian Greene's famous popularization of String Theory. It has chapters in the beginning on SR and Quantum Mechanics that I think are quite good.

This is Einstein's own popularization, only algebra required. All the examples that others use to explain SR pretty much come from here, and sometimes it's good to go right to the source.

This is a collection of the most important works leading up to and including relativity, from Galileo to Einstein, in case you'd like to take a look at the original paper (translated). The SR paper requires more of a conceptual physical background than a mathematical one; the same can't be said of the included GR paper.

I don't know what your background is--the first three options above are textbooks, and that's probably much more than you were hoping to get into. The last three are not; the book by Brian Greene and the collection (edited by Stephen Hawking) are interesting for other reasons besides relativity as well. For SR, though, another book by Greene might be a bit better: this.

I don't know any good videos off the top of my head, but I'd recommend asking for an explanation of the basics of special relativity over on /r/askscience or /r/asksciencediscussion. Or you could use search bar to find old threads about the same thing. They're usually very friendly and helpful.

If you want to go more in-depth and do a little reading on the subject, I'd really recommend this book. It's short, it's not too math heavy, and it does an amazing job of making the ideas clear and obvious. It's actually the book that I learned this stuff from recently. There are also a few others in that collection that deal with other introductory physics topics.

Also, thanks for being reasonable. I don't think you need to stop posting here (not like I could stop you anyway, I'm not a mod or anything). I'm not even close to being an expert, and I still occasionally post here and on /r/askscience... but I keep it to questions rather than answers when I'm not confident that I have a good understanding of the topic.

The album art of the Strokes album freaked me out for a minute because the same image is on the front of my Special Relativity text book.

http://www.amazon.com/Ideas-That-Shaped-Physics-Frame-Independent/dp/0072397144