roy@gitpyr.UUCP (Roy J. Mongiovi) (12/15/84)
> One might ask whether the "fabric of space" has the same same > properties as a piece of cloth, that is, if you pull on one edge, > does the disturbance propagate or does it affect the entire sheet > at once? Actually, the distubance of pulling on one edge of a piece of cloth DOES propagate through the cloth. In fact, it propagates at precisely the speed of sound through cloth. After all, that is EXACTLY what sound is: a disturbance in a physical medium. -- Roy J. Mongiovi. Office of Computing Services. User Services. Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta GA 30332. (404) 894-6163 ...!{akgua, allegra, amd, hplabs, ihnp4, masscomp, ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!roy Who me? I'm not even a REAL modo, I'm only a quasi-modo.