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lisperyesterday at 8:34 PM1 replyview on HN

This was my thought. Nanoseconds are an eternity. You want to be using Planck units for your worst-case analysis.


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u1hcw9nxyesterday at 8:46 PM

If you go far beyond nanoseconds, energy becomes a limiting factor. You can only achieve ultra-fast processing if you dedicate vast amounts of matter to heat dissipation and energy generation. Think on a galactic scale: you cannot have even have molecular reaction speeds occurring at femtosecond or attosecond speeds constantly and everywhere without overheating everything.

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