Hey guys I've been thinking about this for a long time and wonder if it has to do with the above topic. it KINDA sorta relates to the question about gravity; whether it's instantaneous, travels at speed of light, or faster, or what not. This is gonna be a bit long, but PLEASE READ ON it's been nagging me since high school HAHA.
First, let's start off with this question. I have a pen lying on a flat surface. Regular pen. When I push the pen from one end, it moves. What I want to know is, the moment one end moves, when does the other end move as well? you know what i'm trying to say? When I push, does that force push the atoms from that end, causing a chain reaction and having it push the other atoms and so forth till the other end moves, and the whole pen moves. is it instantaneous? or does the end i push moves, and then .000000000000000000000000001 seconds later the whole end moves? ok, that might not make sense but here's what i am getting at. Suppose we can theoretically have a pencil out in space that is 600,000,000 meters long. basically it will take light 2 seconds to start from one end and go to the other. My question is, if you push that one end, when does the other end move? instantaneously? 2 seconds later (speed of light)? or slower? if its instantaneous, thats fricken awesome, cos we can theoretically have information travel faster than light. if it takes 2 seconds (speed of light), then would the pencil be short for that 2 seconds? like, if I push the pencil 1 meter, and the other end hasn't moved yet, wouldn't it be 599,999,999 meters? Wouldn't that be weird! I also have some other stuff will think about it later i hope someone can help me! Maybe someone has thought about this and there's some explanation or something can someone give me some reference please. Thanks so much! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| CF 8 â Scorpio beta now available, easily build great internet experiences â Try it now on Labs http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs_adobecf8_beta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:236024 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
