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"I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of nerdism. I've been carried into the XXIth century on Bill Gates' pants-cuff."
- William Gibson
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| CTC Computer (Closed-Timeline-Curve Time-Travel) | ||
| A device that used time travel to perform computations. |
| But Nilis had assigned her to another part of the project, the development of his "CTC computer" as he called it, his closed-timeline-curve time-travel computing machine. Nilis made it clear that he considered the CTC-processor work just as important as experiments with the Xeelee ship, and she had to accept the assignment. |
| Technovelgy from Exultant,
by Stephen Baxter. Published by Del Rey in 2004 Additional resources -
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I have room for one more enigmatic quote:
Closed timelike curves were theorized by Kurt Gödel in 1949. Here's a link to a 2002 article on Computers with closed timelike curves can solve hard problems. Good luck.
Thanks to Winchell Chung (@nyrath) of Project Rho for the suggestion on this item.
The curves in time had served their purpose - and had rendered their own existence unnecessary. It was another peculiar advantage of a time-travel computer. If it worked correctly, it never actually worked at all a- and so it should never wear out.
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