How space travel will be like

So lately we have been hearing a bit from NASA and others discovering/speculating about matters in the far deep... and invariably the distances pop up -- all in terms of light years

I am sure this throws off many people. Why indeed, should we worry about something we will NEVER see in our lifetime. (And how does it matter if the sun cools in 10 billion years, and so on about all things astronomical)

Well here's what I say. We WILL travel, and we WILL space-travel. And the space travel will be NOTHING like how it is projected in Star Trek/Star Wars/What have you. Here is how I think we will, at some point of time, (space travel,) and I get this from the recently publicized news about the works with the atom smashers, which they want to use to find out where mass comes from (whatever it means), and they want to smash the sub-atomic particles into even more pieces and discover the core of the core (ad infinitum) components.

So finally they will say: THIS is the Higgs Bosom. THIS is responsible for what we call "mass". Or they may say no such thing. Regardless, the direction they are headed, at least to me, it looks like they may one day be able to transform matter from form to form.. and practically reduce anything to its sub-atomic form and then back again. And my "theory" (if you will) starts from there

So since there is nothing faster than light, meaning photons, we will eventually learn to reduce ourselves into a form that can ride on photon vehicles and travel wherever we are beamed up. To boot, when we are re-constructed, we will retain our exact original form. There will be no aging, and we will be young and fresh as ever, even after traveling dozens of years riding on photons. And we will appear as gods before any unfortunate races that may exist throughout the universe.. and mankind will begin yet another chapter in barbarianism and violence at a scale yet to be imagined..