Recent content by q_interested

i realize my argument could have been thought out better, but as i said I don't like your putdown.

I realize what I'm hypothesising probably sounds a bit out there and maybe there's a better place to talk about this, but I'm interested in this kind of thing and I don't like your putdown.

well i thought that was a given since people have responded to the OP's OP. its asking about a 5 LY stick. I realize it sounds airy-fairy but I'm beginning to consider in terms of there there being no such thing as time, I guess I'm an absolutist...I believe that if two things don't happen...

perhaps I'm on the wrong forum, but again, this seems to be breaking down into minutaie before its even begun. maybe i haven't got the mathematical skills or am not as great as some of you, but often one's imagined greatness is an obstacle to enquiry. does physics ever progress? where would...

oh for chrissake - you're taking this too literally - the very question is a postulate - more of a philosophical let's suppose..apparently its impossible to travel at the speed of light, but it didn't stop Einstein theorising. I actually think the Original question is a bloody good one...

lets say that the theoretical stick/rod has zero mass and is perfectly rigid (it doesn't deform), so wherever you go along its length, it moves the same distance in the same manner as it does at the point of transmission..what then?