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Thank you so much, this is the first time I’ve seen this explained in terms I fully grasp. I was getting to the point of wondering whether or not these articles were submarines, but your explanation is far more cogent.



Glad it helped. I think it's easy to lose switches of change time magnitude when we're mostly looking at silicon / software.

Biology, ecology, geology, and cosmology all work on their own timescales. :)




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