27 Feb '08 01:53>
Originally posted by agrysoni've been thinking about this post for a while... there must something wrong in that reasoning, i think... i'll get to it later...
There's an analogy for this, imagine a very long scissors or shears. When you close it very quickly, the point at which the blades meet can travel faster than the speed of light, but not a single atom of the shears is moving faster than a few metres per second.
To come back from that analogy, assuming an inextensible (zero elasticity, this is a thought expe ...[text shortened]... rmation would be transmitted faster than the speed of light, but only the information.