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- From: pnm@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Paul Big-Ears Menon)
- Subject: Re: World's most powerful computing
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.135931.4975@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Sender: fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu (Steve Stevenson)
- Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
- References: <1993Jan14.144705.18937@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1993Jan20.163842.1167@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Date: 20 Jan 93 23:11:17 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.163842.1167@hubcap.clemson.edu>, solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
- [...]
- > That would make power inversely proportional to time used. Thus, imaginary
- > computers are MORE important than installed computers
- >
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- I say, this reminds me of the relativistic rule that the faster the body
- goes, the heavier it gets. Therefore, the fastest "thing" would naturally have
- no mass at all. This supports the importance given to imaginary computers, as,
- after all, they have no mass, thus can go as fast as theoretically possible.
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- The only computer which could go faster would be one with negative mass. I
- suppose this would be possible in good economic times, but not when there's a
- credit squeeze on. Then again, with imaginary computers, we could be wandering
- into the complex plane - which could permit negative mass computers. This would
- be better than zero mass computers, as they could not operate at any speed
- slower than c, only faster. All those propagation time problems would be a
- thing of the past (get it??).
-
- I can't say much more, as I now have to return to my patenting of the
- improbability drive...
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- Paul Menon,
- Dept of Computer Science,
- Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,
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