Clark - 10:38 pm on Apr 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

Damn I was about to patent the superunit concept myself. They beat me to it.

Here is a detailed explanation in plain English for those who didn't get it.

The key is pods. Once you understand pods, you'll understand it all. Using distributed computing, consider all units to be pods. As the code propagates throughout all the pods, it forms a big signature. When you analyze the signature pattern, you are able to form a sophisticated algorithm. It may sound like sophistry but it really works.

By adding the team concept, pods grow by themselves. In a manner similar to that protein folding experiment. It really took off.

Once the pods grow into bigger and bigger units, they converge and become a superunit. If you extrapolate from their patent, you can even posit a superunit of superunits. Like a massive galaxy of galaxies.

The problem is, as you get bigger, gravity begins to play a large role and becomes a bottleneck until it eventually takes over. Then the superunits get smaller. Eventually they will turn into supraunits. But that's beyond the scope of this explanation.

Hope that clears things up a bit.