Why would'nt this work?
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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
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Okay done i got his lids whos got the space gear and the impossible stick
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It's even wilder when you take the concept of ridgidity and transfer of energy out of the equation and just think in terms of pure information propagating though a light cone. Rigidity itself is a function of information.
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Great explanation, thank you!
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Easily. I imagine that most spacecraft are already traveling faster than the speed of stick. It's likely only a few thousand meters per second
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Cool vid, thanks for sharing
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This wouldn't work because the moon is more than 300k km away
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That's what he meant by we'll use sticks on the other side
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You should make it out of feathers. Steel is heavier than feathers.
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always had this question as a kid
And then went, draw it out, and asked.
I applaud that (and the art), good for you.(And the good people already provided answers.)
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why wouldn't this work
because bullets are faster than whatever the fuck speed stickman is achieving
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Yes, the speed of sound in an object is how fast neighboring atoms can react to each other, and not only is that information (therefore limited to C already) but specifically it's the electric field caused by the electrons that keep atoms certain distances from each other and push each other around. And changes in the electric/magnetic fields are famously carried by photons (light) specifically - so even in bulk those changes move at the speed of light at most
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Yes, that's the point. The limit c denies the possibility of a perfectly rigid body existing physically. It can only exist as a thought experiment.
