>>Ah well, we are all the product of light exceeding its own speed limit. Ergo we must be light but whom is the photon torpedo?
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>A question has tickled my mind for a long time. What is the speed of "sound" through a neutron star.
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>A mind experiment:
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>What if I had a lenght of very light yet strong magical metal rod (like the kryth that Niven's "Ringworld" was fabricated from) and it was a "light hour" in length (IOW light took an hour to trave from one end to the other).
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>Now what If I could hang it in space somehow. If I pushed on one end at one meter/second it seems that an observer at the other end would notice it immediately - and not an hour + 1 second after I "pushed" it.
With any real material, there is some elasticity. A push on one end will not propagate immediately to the other end, but rather, propagate like some sort of wave. There is no way around that.
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