Rarefied Chronon Conspiracy
Moore’s Law is a fiction invented by Intel. They put those little ‘heat sinks’ on top of processors, but actually they’re not heat sinks. Intel has been fooling us; processors aren’t actually getting faster.
Those ‘heat sinks’ are actually little chronon distillers that remove chronons (particles of time) from the surrounding atmosphere. The processors use these extracted chronons to boost their perceived speed, making them appear to run at 2x, 4x or even 8x real time. Perceived speed increase is proportional to the number of chronons extracted, so as processors appear to get faster, they had to put ever bigger fans on to scoop more and more atmosphere into the chronon distillers.
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Desktop Chronon Distiller
Typically 2x real time | Server-based Chronon Distiller
Typically 4x or 8x real time |
But they went too far! They are now stealing time from our lives. They distil out so many chronons that the chronon depletion zone extends out of the computer into the surrounding area. The rarefied chronon atmosphere causes time to pass slower for the computer user than an observer.
Chronon Depletion Zone around a typical notebook computer
This is why you seem to lose time whenever you sit in front of a computer and why software projects seem to take a reasonable time to the developers but always appear late to managers!