<font color="yellow">"If you were so large a Being that the Sun and the Earth (including all of the actual space of distance between the two) could fit in the palm of your hand.. and you then decided to start walking, with such oversized Being strides (you would be walking much faster than the speed of light!), towards the next Star nearest to our Sun -you would need to walk for 19 straight hours without stopping (through empty space) before you would reach your destination to the next nearest Star. Most of the Stars you see in the night sky from earth, you would reach in 20-40 years of such walking.. not to mention making it out of our own Galaxy!.. to another nearby Galaxy. (For example, at that rate, would take you 100,000 years of walking, without stopping, just to reach the first galaxy nearest to us!)" </font><br /><br /><br />uhhhummm...for the sake of the idea, let's discount gravity.<br /><br />A body as big as that would experience ( as vogon13 was saying/coining sometime ago) chronomatic stress. kinetic energy can move in a lmited speed, limited by C. <br /><br />aside from that, should there be anything that size, that creature's brain could only send electric impulses/messages to other parts of his body no faster than half C. so, it would take time before the messages from his brain can reach the legs. <br /> <br /><br />the idea is like this:<br /><br />If you have a very strong metal rod, capable of withstanding shearing stress, 100,000,000 Km long, one end is free swinging and the other end is fixed. the free swinging end has a light bulb fixed unto it. now, you make a swing of an arc 180 deg. <br /><br />question: would you see the light bulb travel as fast or faster than light because of the relative <i>big swing</i> ?<br /><br />or would the metal experience stress, since kinetic energy from the fixed end could only travel at speed limited by C and thus nearer atoms/molecules in the metal rod would have already moved while the other fart <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>pain is inevitable</p><p>suffering is optional </p> </div>