It can look dumb, but I always had this question as a kid, what physical principles would prevent this?

  • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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    11 days ago

    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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      11 days ago

      The push would travel at the speed of sound in the stick, much slower than the speed of light

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          10 days ago

          It’s still called the speed of sound. Your intuition is correct in that it’s much higher for solid things, but it’s still much slower than the speed of light.