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Imagine a lightyears-long, inflexible, incompressible rod. If I pull one end of the rod, does the other end immediately begin moving as well? If so, how is that rectified with information being bound by the speed of light? If not, does the length of the rod change? Or what else might happen?

by /u/drewhead118 in /r/askscience

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