Stephen Bloch wrote at 09/13/2010 06:12 PM:
Actually, since RAM exists in 3-dimensional space, the propagation delay to the memory cell you want is at least the cube root of the memory size; even log(n) is unrealistically optimistic.
If you're going to get into physics, Feynman did some curious stuff for the Connection Machine:
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