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by Osmium 4978 days ago
What you're proposing is an effect mediated by physical forces. Specifically, on a fundamental, atomic level your beam is made up of atoms. And when you push it, you're bringing atoms closer together, that feel an electrostatic repulsion. And the beam moves.

So, in the best case, this method of communication is equivalent to communicating with electromagnetic waves. And they have a speed limit: the speed of light :)

So this wouldn't be faster than light communication.