Travelling faster than light

[FindingMeaning]

Do you think it will ever be possible to travel faster than the speed of light?

I love to get excited about us discovering life on another planet and potentially being able to communicate with them, but with the vast size of the universe, given our current understanding of light travel, surely this will never happen?

Even our closest known 'Earth like planet' is some 1,000 lights year away, so even a radio signal would take a thousand years to get there and then another thousand years for any return message (assuming there is a civilisation there capable of detecting radio waves), so it seems kind of pointless?

[swansont]

Our current understanding of physics is that this is not possible. It’s not an engineering barrier to be overcome.