Recent content by Chemp_93

Thanks I appreciate the picture. Okay but shouldn't we be interested in using radius rather than diameter in order to calculate the effective time since the gravitational force depends on the distance from the center of mass (center of sun) to the edge of the sun (where particle grazes the sun).

What exactly is speed of light propagation delay? Also, are there limits on physical size of these parallel processors that the speed of light imposes?

Can you elaborate more on this? Maybe some math will help

Homework Statement Estimate the deflection of starlight by sun using an elementary analysis. gsun = 275 meters / sec2 Diameter of sun = 1.4 * 109 meters. In the following, assume that the light just grazes the surface of Sun in passing. A) Determine an "effective time of fall" from the...

Alright that makes more sense. Thanks for the help.

Thanks CWatters I see what you're saying. But, the math isn't telling me the same. If L = the length between memory and processor then.. 2L = C * t(time it takes for each instruction) L = C*t/ 2 If I increase the time for each instruction (t) wouldn't that increase L?

I figured that 150 m is more likely the solution. So if the memory and processor took more time 'to do their thing', wouldn't the distance between them increase?

Okay... that doesn't really help though.

0.5 μs * c = 150 meters traveled. But that makes no sense because the distance between memory and processor can't be 150 meters apart

Homework Statement This problem is from Spacetime Physics by Taylor In one second some desktop computers can carry out one million instructions in sequence. Assume that carrying out one of the instruction requires transmission of data from the memory to the processor and transmission of the...