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Dewidubbs
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moved from general physics
after watching minutephysics video on breaking the speed of light with a laser pointer (kinda a cheat though, as you are not actually making anything move faster than light.)
I came to wonder, what if instead of using beam a light and the image it creates to appear faster. you instead used an incredibly long, 99.999% rigid stick and swept it across the vacuum of outer space, would the end of stick travel fast enough to break the speed of light just as the photons from the laser sweep across the moon faster than light?
I came to wonder, what if instead of using beam a light and the image it creates to appear faster. you instead used an incredibly long, 99.999% rigid stick and swept it across the vacuum of outer space, would the end of stick travel fast enough to break the speed of light just as the photons from the laser sweep across the moon faster than light?