Continuing on a theme, is there a limit to how fast computers can go? Is there a limit to how much can be computed in a given amount of time?
I don’t think anyone has looked at the consequences of saying that there is a limit to computation. Because if there IS a limit to computational speed, why can’t I just run a computer at the limit, and then run away and back at a very fast speed? Time will pass more slowly for me, and the computer will have, to my frame of reference, operated far more quickly than is possible. Not only that, but if there is a series of diminishing returns on power, at some point it will be more energy efficient to start the computer running to solve a problem, accelerate and then decelerate EVERYTHING ELSE, and then look at the solution now residing on the computer. Of course, the compile-run-debug cycle would be a bitch, but in theory we could get a computer to run almost arbitrarily fast according to every observer.
