I used to have a simplistic religious belief and a "worldly" one, but over time they have converged into one thing. My understanding is that everything in the

I used to have a simplistic religious belief and a "worldly" one, but over time they have converged into one thing. My understanding is that everything in the known universe is subject to time and light. Light is subject to time. Looking at the number of planets, the probability of life is very high, intelligent life, I don't know. The problem for me is that if aliens exist on say the Sombrero Galaxy, a planet that we could "see" would probably be extinct or much more evolved in our 2017 AD. The Sombrero is 29 million light-years away. If hypothetically intelligent life exists on Sombrero, and we can prove it; would we be proving its existence millions of years ago? Given that the fastest thing in the universe is light, and as it has a measured speed, it's subject to time. I don't think we'll ever discover modern-day life forms. Even teleportation would somehow be subject to the speed of light. I was fascinated the day I learnt that we technically can't even leave The Milky Way because it's so huge! So how will we find aliens, or they find us? This is of course a layman argument. If someone with knowledge corrects me, I'd be delighted to spend my morning reading and expanding my knowledge!