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Graduate Does a 2 Light-Year Long Steel Bar Move Instantly When Pushed?
I'm a physics teacher and one of my AP students posed the following question: "if there was a steel bar 2 light years long and you moved it forward a couple inches, would the other end move forward a couple inches immediately or would there be a delay?". We'd been discussing electric fields, so...- Drew boxer
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