"Simply move the one beam slightly and, due to leverage, the other end of the beam (a light year away) would move instantaneously." I might be a little thick, but I don't understand 'leverage' making the other end of the beam move instantaneously ...That's like saying if you turn it off, the other end goes dark instantaneously too...
Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Peter van Houten <[email protected]> wrote: Using a type of Einsteinian thought experiment I used to describe to my students; if you and your friend were to construct two rigid beams, each a light year in length and arrange them alongside each other, about a foot apart, it would be easy to transmit information *much* faster than light. Simply move the one beam slightly and, due to leverage, the other end of the beam (a light year away) would move instantaneously. Your friend would only see the image of you moving the beam a year later but would already know about it! -- Peter van Houten On the 29/07/2009 20:58, Jon Harris wrote the following: Sorry the faster than light travel is at the math modeling level not the functional model level. Jon On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Jon Harris <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: They have already done the computers that talk, transporters at the molecular level, and proved the existance of anti-matter. It will only be time before it is all true. Scientist are also working on faster than light travel and have two working models now. Jon On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Awesome. -- ME2 On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Sherry Abercrombie<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,535252,00.html > > -- > Sherry Abercrombie > > "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." > Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ -- David _____________________ Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
