Why would this not work?
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Consider for a moment what happens when you place your 1 ft. rod between two metal plates affixed so as to be immovable. The rod doesn't expand, and depending on how much power you pump into it might cause either your rod or your motor to break. In order to the rod to successfully expand, it has to push the intervening material out of the way - which means that there must be more force coming from the rods on one side than is being applied by the rods on the other side. Now you are presumably aware that the forces from the rods are not transmitted instantly - rather the atoms from one rod push on the atoms next to them which push on the atoms next to them and so on. This means that the forces from the expanding rods travel as compression waves at the speed of sound in the material you are using. Let's let one unit of time equal the amount of time it takes sound to travel a distance of one rod. Then at T=1 every rod in the chain, except for the ones on the ends, is receiving equal force from every direction and does not get out of the way, and so the rods do not expand. The exception is the rods on the end, which receive force from only one side and get kicked off at up to twice the speed of sound in your rods (their own expansion rate plus the rate of expansion of the rod pushing them off - and the rods can't expand faster than this simply because if they did, the end of the rod wouldn't get out of the way of the middle of the rod fast enough and you'd get a shockwave that breaks your rod). At T=2, then, the second rods from the end fly off at the same speed - the moving rods at the end are still moving away and don't get in the way of them. At T=3, the third rods from the end fly off, and in general you get a wave of rods finally free of the rods next to them and thus able to expand and fly off traveling from the end of your chain to the middle at the speed of sound in your rods - which is slower than the speed of light.\n\nBy the way, about that "twice the speed of sound" - before you even ask, no, you can't get FTL by using a material where the speed of sound is greater than .5c, even if such a material existed, because the only reason the expansion force can reach the far end of the rod currently being launched is because it travels through a moving medium (the rod currently being accelerated). Thus it is more accurate to say that the speed of the far end of the rod is up to the speed of the rod pushing it away plus the speed at which it pushes itself off the far end of that rod. Even if both speeds exceed .5c, their sum will not, as the relativistic velocity addition formula ((u+v)/(1+uv/c²)) dictates. Conceptually, you might thik of this as the rod being launched expanding slower because of time dilation and length contraction due to the velocity of the launch itself.
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I don't know if this works thou
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Make sure it still have fluid in it and if so it will probably work after a few clicks and probably work by the time you get this answer
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it was working for me, try it again
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You can  try but I somehow dont think it will work!!! lol
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Would be helpfully if you could post more information about where it fails, what kind of error(s) are you getting, etc.  I can think of about 20-30 possible problems, and need more information to know which ones to suggest...
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That scenario will not work.
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check out this site it should answer what you are looking for. I have it and it does work.
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hmm, this probably won't work buy you can try lowering the security level of your internet browser, maybe then it would work.
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No, I've tried did not work!!!
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I don't see why it wouldn't, but why don't you just measure it?
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IT MIGHT BE A SYSTEM ERROR
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Check the enclosed link - this should make it simple\n\nEnjoy
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may be this will help you. try to click on it and search. Rate me if it works.
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it's not work...\nit's play...\nduh\nand if you need instructions on how to play.. you've got serious issues my friend.
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That's what they say.  I haven't seen it work in action yet.  Most of those who have set something free, it didn't come back.  I'm running my own experiment, so maybe I'll have an answer for you then.
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