Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jon Koplik who wrote (1749)	6/4/2000 5:34:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12231

Jon, you obviously wanted me to point out that if people had a WWeb gadget, with good old encrypted Q, [EudoraCoin encrypted QUALCOMM issued currency - or even US$ if they are wanted], each person could bid for available spaces in the flight path. The plane with the highest bid, adjusted for expected flight time and therefore consumption of the flight path and blocking of other flights if they were a slow plane, would get to be next in line. Then, all would be happy and have a LOT of fun bidding for a position. Rich people in a hurry who were stuck on the United flight would bid $100,000. Poor people on the flight who didn't really even want to go to Washington would bid nothing. People between would bid according to their own circumstances. The plane with the most money would go! Freeloaders would have to hope they were in a plane with lots of first class passsengers [who had not been upgraded or were merely aircrew traveling home]. It would surely induce a lot of conversation on each flight instead of sullen silence and cursing of the weather - which would NOT help anyone's happiness. People would ask what their neighbours had bid. There would be happy discussions about whether it was enough! Imagine the cheering when a plane 'hit the bid' and zoomed off down the runway with no delay! The same could be done with holding patterns for landing slots in normal rush hour traffic. High-bidding planes could come on down. Impecunious tightwads would have to divert before their fuel ran out to Peoria. Air Traffic controllers who could pack them in 18 seconds apart instead of 20 seconds would get BIG bonus payments. Pilots who could turn off on the first taxiway instead of dozing off to the end of the runway would get 'First Taxiway' fees. Then they could start 'hitting the bid' for WWeb spectrum and capacity space to email or phone home to tell the folks that they were on the way! No delay! Oh happy day. Planes at the bottom of the bid queue could give up, go back to the airbridge, unload and tell people to come back in 6 hours. Futures contracts for 3pm could be bid. People could wait in 'comfort' at the terminal instead of cramped in their seat being offered muesli bars. Moving money, not voice, or 'data', will be the Big-Time killer application and money-making achievement of QUALCOMM Incorporated. They have got 724 Solutions on the case. Mqurice

To: Jon Koplik who wrote (1749)	6/4/2000 9:06:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

Faster than the speed of United! sunday-times.co.uk <...Exact details of the findings remain confidential because they have been submitted to Nature, the international scientific journal, for review prior to possible publication. The work was carried out by Dr Lijun Wang, of the NEC research institute in Princeton, who transmitted a pulse of light towards a chamber filled with specially treated caesium gas. Before the pulse had fully entered the chamber it had gone right through it and travelled a further 60ft across the laboratory. In effect it existed in two places at once, a phenomenon that Wang explains by saying it travelled 300 times faster than light. The research is already causing controversy among physicists. What bothers them is that if light could travel forward in time it could carry information. This would breach one of the basic principles in physics - causality, which says that a cause must come before an effect. It would also shatter Einstein's theory of relativity since it depends in part on the speed of light being unbreachable. This weekend Wang said he could not give details but confirmed: "Our light pulses did indeed travel faster than the accepted speed of light. I hope it will give us a much better understanding of the nature of light and how it behaves." Dr Raymond Chiao, professor of physics at the University of California at Berkeley, who is familiar with Wang's work, said he was impressedby the findings. "This is a fascinating experiment," he said. ...> It is obvious that the speed of light is so pathetically slow that it renders the universe a solid. Meaning, the time taken for light to cross the universe matches the time the universe exists. Okay, we can putz around our local galaxies, but that is small consolation. It's like wading in neck deep mud - slow and not very satisfying. We want hyperdrive! Anyway, to talk of the speed of light is silly. It's a self-referential system and absurd. Speed uses time to define itself, but uses distance as the measure of time. So speed = distance/distance. A circular argument, especially when your measuring stick for distance is as stretchy as the universe obviously is. Distance is handy for circling the sun on good old earth, but not much use for circling the universe or black holes as they do their thing. So, we can conclude that light is way too slow in the boring old 300,000 km per second specification configuration for static conditions [or whatever it is]. Throw in some reverse spin gravitons and you'll find things a bit more interesting still. Things are getting much more amazing in the quantum tunneling and strings business by the look of it. So, where do I buy some caesium? We'll be able to talk right across the galaxy without much latency if we can just fill the void with a bit of caesium. Of, just use 3 geostationary satellites and fill the atmosphere with caesium. Pending supplies of caesium, Globalstar Telecommunications Limited shares are cheap. Mqurice