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Why would it need ftl?

Aren’t all the doublings local?



Anything that keeps replicating exponentially will eventually have its growth limited by the speed of light, because the amount of space you can reach while traveling at a bounded speed only grows polynomially fast. Because the formula for the volume of a sphere is cubic. You’ll run out of space and the things in the inside of the ball won’t have room to replicate.


I'm assuming it would consume all local mass shortly.




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