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Time travel? Or, just clever technology

How does SyncDNA actually work? Learn how we solve a seemingly impossible problem.

And this difference is exploited in the real world, there are several radio relay systems for facilitating high frequency trading in commodities markets faster than trans-continental or trans-atlantic cables. The commonly cited tolerance is about 20 ms, meaning that two performers can only really sit about 7 metres (23 feet) apart without starting to experience synchronization issues, in part facilitating the need for a Conductor in a large orchestra. The key part of our solution is that since performers, producers, and reviewers are in physically separate spaces, "now" isn't a single universal instant, it's a moving target that we can manipulate by changing when "now" is.

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