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• Short answer: no. Long answer: nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. : action roommate
• Do you think physical changes propagate faster than light? Tension? : sgtsanity
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  No, because you'd be sending a mechanical wave over the chain. (I assume you'd hit it to vibrate the cha... : Volatus32x
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    I was thinking you'd turn the gear. The chain being taut, the gear at the other end can't turn without co... : yakz
    • Over such vast distance the gear on one end would have to turn for a while (years and years) before the o... : Volatus32x
• No, and what are the gears for anyway? : thecray
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  You're effectively limited by the speed of sound in the medium that the chain is made of (which is much h... : Volatris
  • Woah, your name made me do a double take : Volatus32x
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  Whoever told you that was pulling your chain. : Marrbe
  • Get your ass in gear, Marrbe. : greasyjohn
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  Slight Hijack : The only way I've heard of recently to communicate at a speed faster than light was a st... : Volatus32x
  • It might be this, sounds about right. http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9907133 : Volatus32x
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    lol They talk about this in mass effect. It's call quantum teleportation or something like that. It lets ... : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
    • Yeah, this was what I was thinking of but I know there is hard science behind it and I can't find the art... : Volatus32x
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    it's called quantum entanglement : electroly
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      Thank you! : Volatus32x
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        And you can't use it to communicate faster than light, because there's no way to discern random spins fro... : MagicWishMonkey
        • I don't recall the whole thing but I think the "Ah ha" for the scientists was how the random spins and vi... : Volatus32x
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  I don't think building such a device is possible. You would need something like infinite tension in the ... : alias
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    He's got the right idea, though. It just can't be a cable or chain that you could physically hold or man... : Volatus32x
    • Well, I really meant a chain with direct contact between every link, and between each link in contact wit... : yakz
• Nope. : TaintedSyringe