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by IgorPartola 2142 days ago
Thank you for that write up.

What about non-chemical life. What I mean by that is something like a giant CPU with traces literally the size of freight trains? I recently finished the first Dark Tower book and it’s got me thinking about scale.

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Then you run into speed of light issues. In one nanosecond, that is one 1GHz cycle, light travels only ~30cm.
Hah, good point. The authors of our simulation really put a damper on things, huh?