Is Faster Than Light Travel Possible Through Kinetic Energy?

[ddarlage]

They say that faster than light travel is impossible. However, if you made a rod 1 light year long and someone was standing at the other end when you bumped it. They would feel it immediately. The kinetic energy generated by the poke reaches the person before the light. Kinetic energy is an attribute of an object in motion. Therefore the stick is traveling faster than light.

 

[berkeman]

They say that faster than light travel is impossible. However, if you made a rod 1 light year long and someone was standing at the other end when you bumped it. They would feel it immediately. The kinetic energy generated by the poke reaches the person before the light. Kinetic energy is an attribute of an object in motion. Therefore the stick is traveling faster than light.

Why would they feel it immediately? What is the speed of sound in a rod? If you smack one end of a rod with a hammer, the sound and movement) of the smack propagates at the speed of sound in the rod...

 

[berkeman]

You can also see this recent thread for further clarification:

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=454265

Welcome to the PF, BTW.

 

[Phyisab****]

Information, matter, and energy cannot travel faster than light. Rather than ask if you have proven special relativity wrong, you should ask what is wrong with your reasoning such that it appears you can violate special relativity. I promise you, it will not be violated in your example.