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Israel Eydelson
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Hi Everyone,
I am very ignorant and uneducated but I have a few questions about a difficult thought experiment.
'How does time flow in a video game/simulation or even in our imagination in relativistic terms?'
Let's say a processor operating at 4.2 Ghz, 42 billion instructions per second at 50% - 99% of the speed of light, generating 60 images per second on a 60 Hz monitor.
Do the generated images flow at a speed relative to our time ? is the electricity used to execute code moving slower in time since it is moving much closer to the speed of light through space?
Do we use relativity to bridge the time gap between the computer and us ?
Sorry if this seems like a complete waste of time by my ignorance, I don't really have a good concept of the speed at which electricity moves throughout the system between the time it is compiled, executed and generated which probably explains my misconceptions. Can anyone with a strong understanding answer these questions?
Thank you,
I am very ignorant and uneducated but I have a few questions about a difficult thought experiment.
'How does time flow in a video game/simulation or even in our imagination in relativistic terms?'
Let's say a processor operating at 4.2 Ghz, 42 billion instructions per second at 50% - 99% of the speed of light, generating 60 images per second on a 60 Hz monitor.
Do the generated images flow at a speed relative to our time ? is the electricity used to execute code moving slower in time since it is moving much closer to the speed of light through space?
Do we use relativity to bridge the time gap between the computer and us ?
Sorry if this seems like a complete waste of time by my ignorance, I don't really have a good concept of the speed at which electricity moves throughout the system between the time it is compiled, executed and generated which probably explains my misconceptions. Can anyone with a strong understanding answer these questions?
Thank you,
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