Aha! Those damn tachyons. Moving backwards through time, dragging a stray particle with them here and there! Must be it.

Stephen Hawking should write an article for PC World on this!


>But what is "real time"? I mean all those electrons running around inside the computer at speeds of light and beyond are causing a wrap in the time fabric and that may be why the clock beats to its own pacer. Stick in a piece of slow hardware and the time fabric is totaly confused, should time go faster because of the slow hardware ro slower because of the fast electrons.
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>All it takes is one tachyon in there and everything gets all messed up. I mean those damn tachyons, they are always getting where they are going before they leave where they are so they are always someplace that they aren't. This can really mess up the clock.
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>Stick a high gravity effect into this soup and who knows what will happen.