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Relativity of Time Explained
[Excerpted from Spectrums, by David Blatner] When the U.S government shot the first global positioning satellite (GPS) into space in the 1970s, no one knew for sure if Einstein’s theories were right,...
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[Table of Duration excerpted from Spectrums, by David Blatner.] 5.4 x 10–44 s Planck time (shortest possible time) 6 ys Light travels diameter of atomic proton (1 chronon) 1 as (1 million ys) light...
View ArticlePetaflops to Exaflops
[“Computer scientists often refer to the speed of a computer in “flops” – floating point operations per second. The fastest computers are just this year breaking the petaflop barrier (quadrillions of...
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