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- Achieving speed of light with Earth's rotation
Summary: Achieving speed of light with Earth's rotation
Excuse my ignorance, but I think of dumb things.
If you theoretically built a strong, lightweight cable that traversed over 2.5 billion miles attached to the rotating Earth, the tip would be traveling at or greater than the speed of light. How does this fail, not in terms of our limited engineering abilities, but physically?
Excuse my ignorance, but I think of dumb things.
If you theoretically built a strong, lightweight cable that traversed over 2.5 billion miles attached to the rotating Earth, the tip would be traveling at or greater than the speed of light. How does this fail, not in terms of our limited engineering abilities, but physically?