When I saw the 0.3% of the speed of light thing, I thought “did Eliezer Yudkowsky screw up the math?” (That’s 9 hundred thousand meters per second), and thought (but did not put much confidence in) Harry might have screwed up the math because he was distracted, but it didn’t occur to me that Harry’s mind was dulled.
When I saw the 0.3% of the speed of light thing, I thought “did Eliezer Yudkowsky screw up the math?” (That’s 9 hundred thousand meters per second), and thought (but did not put much confidence in) Harry might have screwed up the math because he was distracted, but it didn’t occur to me that Harry’s mind was dulled.
I’m pretty sure that was hyperbole.
… Hyperbole, or perhaps he was trying to take a very outside view that allowed him to travel the corridors using less time.