or the speed problem could be solved in one of those head slapping "we should have thought of this before!!"moments and we will be fishing for Gerblatzo in the yellow seas of terra 44 in a couple years.
Unfortunately that's unlikely. One strong argument that current science is correct in saying the problem is fundamentally hard is the question "Where are the tourists?"
If travel between stars were practical we'd expect to be inundated by bug-eyed monsters wearing Hawaiian shirts toting cameras touring the galaxy. Even if some follow an alien Prime Directive it only takes one who doesn't. Yet nothing of the sort is seen outside of Hollywood.
This is all wrapped up in the
Fermi Paradox and nobody knows the answer(s). But one implication of the lack of tourists is that such travel really is as hard as it appears and there is no easy solution.