[stub for offtopicness] [come on you guys]
Though 13 is totally the average!
One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm
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I suppose it's interesting to think about. At today's clock rates, the distance between the CPU and RAM actually adds a small, but still significant delay.
It's ultimately what killed having a memory controller on the northbridge of a motherboard. Having the CPU talk to a separate chip to ultimately talk to the RAM simply added too much latency into the entire process.
And it may end up causing CAMM2 to end up being the next standard. The physical layout of the chips on the board means the traces can be shorter - leading to lower latency and higher stability.
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#27I had a CS professor that used to hold up a length of string roughly that length and talk about how that is how far a bit of data can travel at the speed of light during a clock cycle or something. Honestly don't remember the point he was trying to make.
Admiral Hopper[1] used to use string to demonstrate how long pieces of time are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyFDBPk4Yw [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
Woah. Imagine extrapolating that for life. What does it mean to throw away a day?