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Subject: Re: Do you believe a future computer will calculate 2^168 nodes per second?

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 21:27:30 10/01/01

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On October 01, 2001 at 21:33:02, Dann Corbit wrote:

>[snip]
>>If it will do in the future, it will be a solid chess computer, right? ;-)
>
>Solid, spherical, multi-layer whatever.
>You aren't going to get electrons or photons to move faster than light.
>
>Look at the MHz you imply with the above figure and then calculate the trace
>size that would be needed to prevent breaking the speed of light.
>
>9cm of wire takes a full nanosecond to transverse.
>
>I'm not saying it is impossible.  Just that it is not possible with any physical
>process we know of now.

Put simply:  NOT IN OUR LIFETIME.


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