I believe there are thousands of civilizations similar to ours in the billions of galaxies out there with the billions of stars in each one. However, we will never know them and they will never know us because it is impossible to break the light barrier.
It may be... or may not be. We just need the next visionary combined with raw intellect, like Einstein.
I am convinced the light speed barrier can be broken, and when we do it, it’s going to look so simple in retrospect.
A man can dream anyway. I hope to one day not just visit another star, but maybe another galaxy. However, according to statistics, I only have about 37 years to go to see that happen, and that kind of advancement probably won’t take place by then.
Really my only hope is that we build a artificial intelligence that can tackle the problem in just a few small years.
It’s impossible to break the light barrier now, with the current technology we have. I absolutely believe humans will travel faster than light in the future; how far into the future it will be, I don’t know. But how boring would it be to only achieve say, 30% of the speed of light the way we’re going?
“It can’t be done. It can never be done.”
Seems pretty depressing considering how far we’ve come in a hundred years.
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Only if you think like Einstein, James Clerk Maxwell had other ideas but Heavyside threw them out since they were field equations which he said were impossible ... the four Heavyside kept and converted to vector equations gave us the electromagnetic spectrum and, incidentally, Einstein ...
Maxwell's equations posited instantaneous travel from anyplace to anywhere, energy without end, communications without radio ... which is likely why SETI is a vain search - the “aliens” do not use it.