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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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effectively you are just pushing on the atoms at one endand they in turn transfer that force to the next atoms and so on. There's a ripple that travels down the object to move it. It's just too fast to be observed in objects under about a light-second in length.
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The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 27 May 2010, 9:52,
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