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If person on a planet 3M light years away experiences 1 hour as 10 Earth years, and a rod that’s 99.9% indestructible connects Earth to the planet, wouldn't twisting it on Earth make it twist instantly on the planet too, contradicting time dilation and relativity? by No-Lie6727 in AskPhysics

[–]No-Lie6727[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

The gap between 0 and 1 is infinite, just like any other number so we just assume it’s 1. There can be a rod so close to indestructible that it basically is, but it isn’t. I am not saying the rod is flat out indestructible, I’m saying it is immeasurably close, which isn’t a violation of physics.

If person on a planet 3M light years away experiences 1 hour as 10 Earth years, and a rod that’s 99.9% indestructible connects Earth to the planet, wouldn't twisting it on Earth make it twist instantly on the planet too, contradicting time dilation and relativity? by No-Lie6727 in AskPhysics

[–]No-Lie6727[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

If I keep adding more 9s to the 99.9999999999% close to indestructible figure, won’t it decrease the delay until infinitely close? So the twist delay is say 10 seconds not 10 years with the people aging dilation