Tachyon computer

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The latest advance in computer technology, tachyon computers were the inevitable result of FTL communications. Based on using particles that move faster than light (collectively referred to as tachyons) for data processing, they are capable of amazing computational power. At this level several peculiar relativistic effects are observed, such as the paradoxical possibility that a computer may arrive in a solution to a problem before the problem is even inserted by users. Tachyon computers thus require extremely sophisticated programming, relativistic memory buffers and paradox compensator subroutines to prevent the system from corrupting itself with unexpected input from the future.