Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:08:00 05/16/01
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On May 16, 2001 at 17:40:29, Dann Corbit wrote: >On May 16, 2001 at 17:27:53, J. Wesley Cleveland wrote: >[snip] >>But, if Moore's law holds until the end of the >>century, we should be able to solve chess at blitz speeds. > >Are you sure this won't require speeds faster than C? >;-) >I remain thoroughly unconvinced. Hmmm... I may have to ammend my thoughts. We would not necessarily have to propagate anything at above C if we can get it to oscillate fast enough. If we could modulate super-high energy gamma waves, we could [conceivably] calculate at 10^27 operations per second. From: http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970412e.html We have: "Reliable detections of very high energy gamma-ray radiation from individual astrophysical sources, specifically from a couple of active galaxies and from the Crab Nebula, have extended up to about 10^27 Hz (5 x 10^12 eV)." which would render ultra-fast computation not impossible (if still rather... difficult).
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