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?

Lets assume the universe is infinite (which may or may not be true), would this mean that we would be created again, in the exact same circumstances as we were in this life? If something is infinite, then surely the exact same make up of something will be created again, whether that be in 10 years or 10 trillion years? It could be here on this earth or it could be on another planet in another universe. I do very much believe that we are just our brains and there is no soul, as such. However, I think we will experience consciousness again but a difference consciousness with no connection or memory of previous ones. I suspect we would also not feel any time go by between death and birth, as even if this is trillions of years, we'd have no consciousness to perceive it.