Why would'nt this work?
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Username checks out.
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Relativistic mass is not helpful to our everyday understanding of mass, it's more helpful to discuss momentum, like the other commenter pointed out
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Space bends due to gravity. Light continues in a straight line through the now non-linear space, thus appearing to bend.
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This is actually a great example for why that stick must not exist.
You can also do this with a unbreakable stick and an unbreakable shorter tube. Throw the stick at a high velocity through the tube and it contracts for the point of view of the tube. Then close it shut. Now you have a stick that's longer than the tube fully contained in it.
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Go find a 30' stick and let us know if you can point it at the moon.
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Correct answer is here.
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I think the standard model says the same thing, tbh....
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Basically the speed of sound in that material
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You joke, but this is a real problem in computing Obligatory link to Tom Scott video.
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Matter is made of atoms. Things are only truly rigid in the small scales we deal with usually.
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Tbh I thought someone would make that joke when i wrote it lol
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Probably wiggly wiggly
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Yeah, everyone else had already answered that, which felt like we're picking apart that specific thought experiment, even though there is actually a much more fundamental reason why it won't work.
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Damn it even on Lemmy I can't get to the comments before someone else has the samr idea as me ahaha
