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Most_Engineering_992 t1_j6yb6zd wrote

This would be similar to pushing a, say, 100m stick against a concrete wall since the inertia of a stick multiple LYs in length would be comparable. Sure, you could push the end 10cm, but it would just crumple or bend.

Fun with math: If the 'stick' was a steel rod about a cm square, it would weigh around 7,400,000,000,000 tonnes per light year. That's only 1/10,000,000th the weight of the moon, but it's still substantial.

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rogert2 t1_j6yc952 wrote

"Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will grunt and strain to no effect." -- Archimedes (kind of)

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