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The rod can only stay horizontal in the hole frame, if in the rod frame, according to LT, the right-hand side of the rod falls forever with a higher velocity than the left-hand side of the rod, because the acceleration has started there earlier. That would not be compatible with "non-destructively".PAllen said:No, I think it would be horizontal in the hole frame, by construction, and slightly distorted and not quite horizontal in the rod frame (assuming we remain talking about the Rindler example from post #2, with a thin right hole edge, rather than a wall). Given the tiny angle of deformation required over a light year, even the most rigid material imaginable would easily accommodate the deformation non-destructively.