In Stross's Accelerando, the solar system is dismantled into computronium and the post-Singularity economy runs at millions of subjective years per calendar year. The key Fermi discovery: interstellar travel is ruinously expensive — not in joules, but in subjective time. For a mind running at silicon speeds, a forty-year crossing is a forty-million-year exile.
Omega Centauri is the strongest available stress test for the bandwidth-and-latency family of Fermi solutions. In the cluster's dense core, neighboring stars are typically a few light-months to light-years apart — a hundred to a thousand times closer than stars in the solar neighborhood. Travel objections mostly evaporate there: crossings take years, not millennia, even at modest speeds. If expansion-minded civilizations existed in ωCen, the cluster should have been engineered end-to-end billions of years ago.
Yet the cluster shows no colonization signature. Under Stross's model this is still expected — note in the calculator that even an ωCen-core hop of 0.2 ly costs a fast mind thousands of subjective years, and the subjective penalty scales with speedup, not just distance. The silence of a system where travel is cheap is therefore evidence that the binding constraint is the mind's economics rather than the rocket's: precisely the regime where MTH's inward attractor dominates. What to look for instead is concentrated waste heat — the topic of the layer planner and the Dyson swarm detectability tool.