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To: one_less who wrote (920)	9/15/2006 11:53:20 AM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

The Market looks very tired here. 1634.42 may not hold here on the Nasdaq 100. Sold 90% of my QLD position for + 3.35 and just initiated a short position on this index via QID. Just a very short term trade. Over the weekend (Sunday), I will read your thread. I'll have time then. I think I posted this to the wrong thread. Sorry.

To: one_less who wrote (920)	9/15/2006 4:00:15 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

Zeno's paradox of dividing distance and time into infinite number of intervals making movement from one finite point to another, confounds the computer but falls apart when we make the observation of a real circumstance, because we are aware that in real nature we can divide time anyway we want... as a limited segment or infinite number of times. Zeno's paradox wouldn't confound a properly programed computer and IMO isn't much of a paradox. If you analyze how you have to go an infinitely decreasing distance to go to each new half and recognize that the amount of time it takes trends quickly in the direction of zero... Actually if you accept the current scientific understanding you don't have to go half of half of half of half... of the distance. At some point the next half would be less than the plank length (about 1.6 × 10^-35 metres), so the minimum motion is more than the next half. To put it another way Call the plank length p. Set up Zeno's paradox so that the distance from one end to the other is p. You can go the whole distance without ever having gone half the distance.