If you take a object and spin it, it's outer edges travel faster than it's center. You can see this by grabbing a broom stick and extending it outward then start spinning in one spot. The other end of the broomstick travels further in a circle than you do, but makes the journey in the same amount of time. If we were in space and could get a broom stick to start spinning, but we kept adding more length to the stick, could the end of the broom stick eventually reach the speed of light? And, to bring up a subject from my last question. If time stops for a object traveling at the speed of light, what happens to that object if only part of it is traveling at the speed of light? Does it break in two? Or would the end of the broomstick traveling at the speed of light remain attached to the rest of the stick?
2007-01-14
15:37:26
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jedi1josh
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