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01-12-2013, 10:46 AM | #21 |
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Location: Dallas, Texas
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Re: [Worldbuilding] Divergent, retro and other 'not of this world' Computers and Soft
Harmonic Oscillation Ordinator
This is a colossal scale difference engine contained in a hexagonal prism of transparent neutronium. When simple harmonic motion is applied, passing gravity waves are trapped and reflected between the upper and lower hexagons where they can be used to expand the interior into virtual spaces when the neutron flow is halted and reversed. These reflections would be identical and thus redundant except for the further application of lateral rotation whose frame dragging and prevents the six vertical sides from forming a regular enclosed Euclidean path. The discrepancy allows the virtual space to be populated with non-identical component gears and cams of virtual matter, providing computing power limited only by the gravity wave energy previously collected. To best exploit this property, HOOs are often used to direct relative dimension controllers to safely contain gravitational collapse apertures within transcendental architectures, though this typically results in an effective wave-gathering size of 1%. This does allow for use on personal vehicles which can then be periodically re-energized at suitable collapsing venues. |
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Location: Cambridge, UK
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Re: [Worldbuilding] Divergent, retro and other 'not of this world' Computers and Soft
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01-13-2013, 12:23 AM | #23 | |
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Alsea, OR
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01-19-2013, 12:15 AM | #24 |
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Meifumado
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Re: [Worldbuilding] Divergent, retro and other 'not of this world' Computers and Soft
This blog entry has some discussion of the possibilities of a divergent internet-
http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/01/why-...-the-internet/
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01-29-2013, 01:48 AM | #25 |
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: The Kingdom of Insignificance
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Re: [Worldbuilding] Divergent, retro and other 'not of this world' Computers and Soft
How about a TL4 computer which is an entire building, full of clerks and mathematicians. This in turn is linked via a semaphore network to other cities, and their computational centres.
Read it in an obscure Australian Sci Fi book. Peddle powered trains, librarians dueling with matchlock pistols, AND a scaled up 'computer'.
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