Why would'nt this work?
Why would'nt this work?
It can look dumb, but I always had this question as a kid, what physical principles would prevent this?
Why would'nt this work?
It can look dumb, but I always had this question as a kid, what physical principles would prevent this?
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The whole poll does not move as end entire unit instantaneously. You send a sort of shock-wave through the poll, when you push it from your end. That shockwave has a travel time that's much slower than light. I suspect that the speed of that shockwave probably proportional to the speed of sound in the material that the poll is made of.