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From: dwt@EECS.UMICH.EDU (David West)
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Subject: Re: intelligent nanocomupters
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Date: 1 Feb 88 17:49:18 GMT
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In article <8801251914.AA24568@LANL.GOV> t05rrs%mpx1@LANL.GOV
  (Dick Silbar) writes:
>...to accomplish a century of progress in one hour."  I am reminded of a novel
>some years back by Robert Forward, "Dragon's Egg", in which just that did 
>happen in a civilization living on the surface of a neutron star.

Within that novel, no simulation was involved; the civilization "naturally" ran
that fast because the dominant forces in its material basis were baryonic 
("strong nuclear") rather than coulomb ("electromagnetic").

-Davi.