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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I predict we'll have FTL travel before we can invent a stick that's "unfoldable".
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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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Even if it were perfectly rigid, supernaturally so, your push would still only transmit through the stick at the speed of light. The speed of light is the speed of time.
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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
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The push would travel at the speed of sound in the stick, much slower than the speed of light
