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Can information travel faster than the speed of light?

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coffee_addict
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07-18-2004 3:54 AM

Imagine that you have a rod that is made of a material that is indestructable. The rod is 30,000,000,000 meters long. If I push one end of the rod, theoretically, the other end instantaneously move away from me as well.
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By the way, it takes light about 10 seconds to travel 30,000,000,000 meters.
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Is there something wrong with this scenario? Can information really travel faster than the speed of light?
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The Laminator
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07-20-2004 11:22 PM 		Reply to: Message 17 by sidelined
07-20-2004 10:18 PM

Good point! Somehow, that never occured to me before. I guess I'm not as scientific as I wanted to be. Subconsciously, I still view solid objects as really solid objects.
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07-21-2004 3:47 AM 		Reply to: Message 19 by sidelined
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sidelined writes:
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I envy the young man{and woman} these days in the access to knowledge and real concrete understandings free of superstition and myth.
Well, I'm a little less optimistic than you. many people I have met still seem to think that the sun orbits the Earth.
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The Laminator
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10-04-2004 5:13 AM

Ok, new info on the subject matter. What about the bell's inequality?
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This message has been edited by Lam, 10-04-2004 04:18 AM
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