Why would'nt this work?
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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
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Probably quantum entanglement, which we (and certainly I) don’t fully understand yet
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Glass easily bends
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Sound is air vibration
Sound is not exclusive to air, it can be generalized to vibrations in any media. Whale song and dolphin echolocation are certainly sounds, and we're almost always talking about them propagating in water rather than air.
which has to travel from one place to the next
No, that isn't how sound works. In air this would be a description of wind, not sound.
just transfer kinetic energy to the adjacenct atom
This is actually a good description of how sound waves propagate.
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Perfectly rigid sticks don't exist.
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I would liken it to a long freight train starting to move. Once the front starts moving, it will still be a minute before the back starts moving. The space between the train couplings is like the spring effect between atoms, or something.
