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Petaflops 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 operations per second — 10^15).” Spectrums, Chapter 1] The … Read more

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Duration

[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 travels length of 3 hydrogen atoms … Read more

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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, but millions of dollars were at stake: If … Read more