Keroscene
Active Member
Physics idea
I was reading about how long it takes radio waves to travel through space. Or how long it takes light to travel, for example. Even though it's incredibly fast, it still takes time to get to it's destination. Let's say you wanted to send a radio transmission from earth to Mars. It takes about 8 minutes according to wikipedia.
Now this is when I had a crazy idea. Lets forget for a second that the all planets are orbiting around the sun and instead for the sake of argument we'll say that they remain in perfect alignment. If they did we could run a metal rod or stick from the Earth to Mars. With pulls or pushes on the stick you could communicate a basic morse code, seeing how the other end of the stick would move at the exact same time as you pushed or pulled it.
I just solved FTL communication.
Seriously though, would this be possible? Would both ends move at the same time?
I was reading about how long it takes radio waves to travel through space. Or how long it takes light to travel, for example. Even though it's incredibly fast, it still takes time to get to it's destination. Let's say you wanted to send a radio transmission from earth to Mars. It takes about 8 minutes according to wikipedia.
Now this is when I had a crazy idea. Lets forget for a second that the all planets are orbiting around the sun and instead for the sake of argument we'll say that they remain in perfect alignment. If they did we could run a metal rod or stick from the Earth to Mars. With pulls or pushes on the stick you could communicate a basic morse code, seeing how the other end of the stick would move at the exact same time as you pushed or pulled it.
I just solved FTL communication.
Seriously though, would this be possible? Would both ends move at the same time?