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Wait, so you are saying we would feel the effects immediately, but the light would not disappear for eight minutes? So let's assume once can cause the sun to v
by achille 16y ago
Wait, so you are saying we would feel the effects immediately, but the light would not disappear for eight minutes?
So let's assume once can cause the sun to vanish instantly somehow. If that's the case, would it then be possible to setup a 'gravitational wave' communication system that travels faster than light?
Ie, I would put a whole bunch of stars together, and then have them disappear at certain intervals. My buddy who sits 100 light-minutes away would then detect the changes and decode the message. TADA: Faster-than-light communication.
I feel safe to say that's not possible.
- gnok 16y agoOut of curiosity, why do you think this is not possible?
- achille 16y agoYou can't transmit data faster than the speed of light.
- benJIman 16y agohttp://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1122131/?ln=cs http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1122131/?ln=cs
- sliverstorm 16y agoI love the names they give to things nowadays. In this case, specifically "Spooky action"
- pavel_lishin 16y agoI think that when it comes to the term "spooky action", "nowadays" would be around the time Einstein was working on all of this.
- davepeck 16y agoSo far as we currently know, classical information (aka bits) cannot be transferred via quantum entanglement (aka spooky action at a distance.)
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- othermaciej 16y agoNo, the sun disappearing would not be constant velocity or constant acceleration motion, so the info would indeed only propagate at the speed of light.