The original concept of the plasma processor dates all the way
back to the Information Age, when various researchers theorized
about the ultimate possible limits of computation using
conventional matter. These theorists quickly determined that the
ultimate speed of a computer was dictated by quantum theory and
Relativity, which stated that the minimum possible time it could
take for something to change from one quantum state to another
was limited by the amount of energy available to it. Assuming
that the maximum amount of energy available could be had by
converting the entire mass to energy led to the result that the
so-called 'ultimate computer' would consist of a ball of plasma
operating nuclear temperatures for a tiny fraction of a second
before radiating energy blew it apart. This was generally
presumed to mean that no actual computer could ever operate at
the ultimate theoretical limits of computation and for millennia
this was the case, until the first S4 minds appeared. First
developed at the 4th Sing