<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div>The latter. It'll actually transmit much slower than light.</div><div style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Will Steinberg <steinberg.will@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sun, February 21, 2010 6:19:16 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [ExI] Is this FTL Communication?<br></font><br>
Imagine we build a very, very long, very, very solid rod. One end of the rod is located very, very far away. Will pushing one one end of the rod effect an immediate response on the other? Or is this just a longitudinal wave of nuclear forces propagating at <c?
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