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That's actually a really fascinating science fiction idea!



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrioshka_brain

:-D

It's a topic that has been explored quite a bit in science fiction literature.


It's sort of the plot of the Douglas Adam's books.

https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Earth


Related to the fallacy of comparing what's slow in our world with what's computable in a simulation of it--there's no requirement for time to tick similarly.




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