Why would'nt this work?
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I assume the post is saying that they’re both touching the ends of the stick and then one person pushes. It would be instant. What would sound have to do with an object moving? Purely mechanical communication.
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Are you saying that the person on the moon would feel a tap from the other end or the person would actually push the stick forward towards the man’s hand on the moon?
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I'm not a scientist, but when I asked the same question before they said, "compression."
Like, the stick would absorb the power of your push, and it would shrink (across its length) before the other end moved. When the other end does finally move, it's actually the compression reaching it.
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Metal is a lot heavier than wood. You'd never be able to lift it to the moon.
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Weigh on Earth or on Moon?
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We're supposing that you have an herculean strengh and that weight is not a problem
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Large if factual
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The only way to know for sure is by trying
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Yes, about my setting, it was pretty much an excuse to illustrate the experiment, with like you said, a bit too much of magic.
The moon being on a straight distance of 1 light second, i didn't had found another place to put this experiment on. So I didn't take into account the herculean strengh needed, the movement of the earth and the moon and the gravity.
Someone gave a link to an answer of my question, with a more realistic take on the position of the other end, but your explanations are still welcome for this moon setting and the "moon elevator" problem
(i know i may have broken english sometimes, sorry about that)
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(i know i may have broken english sometimes, sorry about that)
Not at all! I couldn't tell you aren't a native speaker. Regarding a "moon elevator", or more realistically a space elevator, these kinds of Herculean physics problems are exactly what people are trying to iron out. The forces involved are astronomical.
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That was excellent. Thank you
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Huh....so we may fail to achieve faster than light (FTL) travel but we could probably manage faster than stick (FTS) travel
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Or a duck.
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NASA: "Hold my beaker."
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Yeah IIRC that even applies to things like gravity as well. As in, we aren't actually orbiting around where is sun is, we're orbiting around where it was ~8 minutes ago because the sun is about 8 light-minutes from Earth.
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No, gravity is faster than light. If there was this lag, we wouldn't have stable orbits exactly because of the lag you describe. Wave functions of photons also collapse faster than light when they hit absorbent material.
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Oh right. I'll edit my comment
