If there’s a delay, it’s not perceptible to an onlooker, which is probably good enough for an analogy in this case I hope? It would need to be, given that the

If there’s a delay, it’s not perceptible to an onlooker, which is probably good enough for an analogy in this case I hope? It would need to be, given that the gears aren’t going to reverse time and break apart into light beams just because I looked at them. Quantum physics doesn’t fit very well into simple examples.