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Re:Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This? by super_mario on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:00AM (#16754727)
Interestingly enough the universe we find ourselves in already has such constraints. The speed of light is the upper limit for anything that has a mass (and is impossible to reach), and other stars are prohibitively far away for us to visit or explore in any detail.

Perhaps the simulation did this on purpose, so they don't have to render far away galaxies in high resolution :D.

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Re:Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This? by coryfklein on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:40AM (#16755126)
I think his comment was an oblique reference to the speed of light.
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Re:Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This? by DtnB on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @02:52PM (#16757722)
C in m/s does fit into max int with room to spare. What I'm more concerned with is that our Universe might be running on SQL and that dark matter is actually table whitespace.
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