I've found a way to break the speed of light.

[Dooby]

the inertia is a good point

but also you have to realize a bar is just atoms, when this fictional machine "pushes" (or even when you push anything) all you are doing is pushing the atoms that are touching the machine, those atoms then push the atoms next to them and so on and so on, in other words a "push" isnt really a "push", a push is just the beginning of a wave

this wave moves slower than the speed of light, so by the time the wave gets to the other end its way more than a light year past the time you began the wave

more info on how waves move through solids
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonon

Well I have to take my hat off to you. This has been a weekly test to see if the Higher Learning section is actually worth a damn. I was purely joking with this entire thread. I wanted to see how long it would take for someone to point out the real reason why this would not work. Lol at people saying shyt like my reaction/electrical pulse would have to be faster than the speed of light or the pole will cause a black hole lmao. So many pseudo intellectuals. Sensitive Black Griffen was really feeling himself there.

Good job the WorldIsMine. I would rep you but fakkits catch feelings easily so I'll just dap.

 

[zerozero]

first time in history I've seen @theworldismine13 drop knowledge.

 

[Liu Kang]

[...]
Good job the WorldIsMine. I would rep you but fakkits catch feelings easily so I'll just dap.

I repped him for you.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

Science discussions on here are always embarrassing

 

[tmonster]

"I've found a way to break the speed of light; just build a machine that breaks the speed of light."

reminds me of that episode of the Big Bang Theory (The Speckerman Recurrence)

 

[tmonster]

the inertia is a good point

but also you have to realize a bar is just atoms, when this fictional machine "pushes" (or even when you push anything) all you are doing is pushing the atoms that are touching the machine, those atoms then push the atoms next to them and so on and so on, in other words a "push" isnt really a "push", a push is just the beginning of a wave

this wave moves slower than the speed of light, so by the time the wave gets to the other end its way more than a light year past the time you began the wave

more info on how waves move through solids
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonon

I built a machine that so much more efficient than this contraption
mine just travels faster than light once you push the big red button in the cockpit, there's Corinthian leather on the captain's chair too

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Dooby, you are not this dumb doggie. stop it

he's trying.

he's wrong.

but he's trying...

 

[AgentGrey]

Well I have to take my hat off to you. This has been a weekly test.

Are there others?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

http://www.sciencelet.com/2012/10/light-year-long-rod-to-beat-speed-of-light.html

Light year long rod to beat speed of light
This is an interesting argument (wrong of course) on how one can beat the speed if light by having a rod that is one light year long.

The argument goes like this.

Lets say there is a rod that is one light year in length i.e. the length of the rod is equal to the distance traveled by light in one year. Lets put two persons A and B on either end holding the rod. Person A pushes the rod and Person B instantaneously feels the nudge in his hand but he can only 'see' Person A pushing the rod after an year. Yay, the speed of light is beaten.

Two men holding a light year long stick to see if they can beat light speed
The above argument looks convincing based on our real world experience where pushing one end of an object instantaneously moves the other end.

However, in reality the other end of the object doesn't move instantaneously but moves after some time. When an object is pushed at one end, a series of compression waves are created that propagate through the object until it reaches the other end and the speed at which these waves travel is equal to the speed of sound in the material the object is made of. It is these compression waves that convey the information that the object has been pushed and thus move the entire object.

In our hypothetical example, lets say the rod is made of steel. Speed of sound in steel is 6100 m/s and the speed of light is 299792458 m/s. So the pressure wave (that travels at the speed of sound in steel) would take 49146 times more duration to reach the other end. Thus in our example, Person B would feel the nudge after nearly 49000 years. So much for their attempt to beat the speed of light.
In fact, the slow propagation of the the compression waves can be seen easily if the right material is chosen. The video below shows slinky drops at more than 300 fps and one can clearly see that the other end doesn't move until the compression wave reaches it. Same happens in rigid objects but at a much higher speed.

 

[NoMoreWhiteWoman2020]

in what direction are you gonna push the pole?

 

[™BlackPearl The Empress™]

Nevermind.

 

[The 2020 New Member]

what would be the point of sending information faster than it can be proccesed, though?

 

[HookersandIceCream]

I one started this thread faster than the speed of light

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Well I have to take my hat off to you. This has been a weekly test to see if the Higher Learning section is actually worth a damn. I was purely joking with this entire thread. I wanted to see how long it would take for someone to point out the real reason why this would not work. Lol at people saying shyt like my reaction/electrical pulse would have to be faster than the speed of light or the pole will cause a black hole lmao. So many pseudo intellectuals. Sensitive Black Griffen was really feeling himself there.

Good job the WorldIsMine. I would rep you but fakkits catch feelings easily so I'll just dap.

Really breh? I said the exact same shyt twism said, he just did he just did so more eloquently, not to mention I called you out twice for trolling, but given your previous math threads it was conceivable that you were indeed that stupid.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Science discussions on here are always embarrassing

Without fail.

nikkas come in on that "Yo...fukk school and I never paid attention in science class but...CHECK THIS OUT!"