It “feels” to me like the uncertainty principle. Think of availability as an interval of time by which all nodes have to be connected. If you set A high enough,

It “feels” to me like the uncertainty principle. Think of availability as an interval of time by which all nodes have to be connected. If you set A high enough, sure, you can have both CP to your heart’s delight. As A shrinks, you lose the ability to have both C and P and have to pick one. It’s something like CxP/A>n, where n is a constant within a system.