>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.

Obviously you are not aware of the tensil properties of "scrith", the material used to construct Niven's "Ringworld".

It's Okay - an innocent mistake!:-)

So you're suggesting that, though my "experiment" seems to make sense in "earthly" terms, it is relativistic in scale meaning "earthly" perspectives (geometric intrepretations) yield to quantum perspectives?

COuld we both be restricted to an "earthly" view. Mine, as justly indicated by you, and your's, for not considering the properties of "scrith" (i mispelled in my earlier post), the material that binds "Ringworld".

You may be right. Perhaps [even] the noble "scrith" would kneel before quantum law.

So much for sheer speculation:-)