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Justin LaPre sent me a tweet last week, “I think you would enjoy reading ‘Virtual Time’ by David Jefferson. Give it a read if you find yourself with some down time. ” Thank you Justin, I did read it and I thought it was absolutely wonderful! This paper has time warps, space-time, matter and anti-matter, and more! It’s also easy to read and a refreshingly different take on distributed systems. Lamport (‘Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a distributed system’ – #themorningpaper no. 15) seems to have been among the first to recognize that real-time temporal order, simultaneity, and causality between events in a distributed system bear a strong resemblance to the same concepts in special relativity. In particular, he showed that the real-time temporal relationships happens before and happens after that are operationally definable within a distributed system form only a partial order instead of a total order, and that distinct concurrent events are incomparable under that partial

Virtual Time – Jefferson 1985 Justin LaPre sent me a tweet last week, “I think you would enjoy reading ‘Virtual Time’ by David Jefferson. Give it a read if you find yourself with some down time. ” Thank you Justin, I did read it and I thought it was absolutely wonderful! This paper has time warps, space-time, matter and anti-matter, and more! It’s also easy to read and a refreshingly different take on distributed systems. Lamport ( ‘Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a distributed system’ – #themorningpaper no. 15 ) seems to have b

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