Obviously theoretical but if I took a light year long stick and say pushed a button at the other end would that button be pushed at the same time for me as say someone standing at the button? How does the frame of reference work when physically moving something? And could that “work” as a method of instant communication?
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Basically, you’re talking about rudimentary FTL communication.
In theory, yes, but the rod would need a few additional properties: infinitely rigid and massless. The rigid requirement is to remove any possibility of compression which would normally happen internal to the material. The massless requirement is to overcome internal inertia and gravitational influences.
In practice, no, because ideal material properties don’t exist – hence, theoretical.
Instantaneous communication would also break causality rules as we know them – that is, the person at the receiving end would read the message before light could arrive showing the sender transmitting the message.
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