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by CamperBob2 4978 days ago
The pressure waves are ultimately manifestations of the exclusion principle, expressed through forces that are constrained to travel at or below c.

So yes, relativity dictates that you can't create a rigid beam 25 molecules long, much less 25 million miles long. There can be no such thing as a perfectly rigid beam of any length.