[nova]

> Understanding distributed systems means being aware of a much larger state space and how things like special relativity impact it (I'm being a bit flippant, but not actually inaccurate—message latency is not poorly modeled by special relativity).

This sound really interesting. Any recommendations to learn more about it?

[tel]

The classic paper on distributed clocks mentions it, Lamport's "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System" (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/t...)