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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: waitwatchwander who wrote (61567)	3/27/2007 4:47:34 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 197697

NS, Being a world renown economist and physicist I'm happy to help. That's an interesting economic and physical question: <If a ramp is truly a frictionless surface, doesn't the mass of anything blocking the path of a moving object not get fully absorbed into the objects forward momentum? I suspect a transfer of any assets between Qualcomm and any of their Nemisis(es) might affect the speed of the combined entity. My only hope is that Qualcomm engineers have studied those mechanics and my only fear is that their understanding of economics seems somewhat edgy. > You might recall that Dr Irwin Jacobs was reading "The Elegant Universe" about Calabi Yau equations and fundamental principles of the physics of existence. I think you can take it as granted that QUALCOMM has a smattering of understanding about mass accretion, momentum, expansion, the duality of nature and probabilistic existence. They also know how much sense makes a dollar. Say a mass, QUALCOMM, is at the top of your slippery slope and there's an elephant, Nokia, standing in the way, stationary, at the bottom, with a spring waiting to boing them back up the slope again. If the mass of QCOM is $70 billion and the mass of Nokia is $90 billion and the spring constant is constant with perfect boingability, how far would the combined mass go back up the slope [as a percentage of where QCOM started]? When the mass and the elephant meet, there is a splattering effect with the elephant being reshaped, more bent out of shape since the masses are comparable and the starting speeds are zero. Yes, there are some quantum losses due to legal effects, but overall, there is continued momentum. After the masses combine, the unwanted parts of the mass can be ejected at high velocity in the opposite direction of travel [such as the gumboot manufacturing parts of Nokia and the hardware parts too]. That actually accelerates the remaining part, so the momentum of the remaining part actually increases. So, when it hits the spring to boing back up, it is going so fast it shoots right off the ramp at escape velocity enabling the laws of physics to be breached, a new Calabi Yau state entered and quantum tunneling to be done into a new state. Such as Nevada, or Bermuda, which is tax free. However, if in Bermuda, enforcement of patents would be more difficult as Bermuda doesn't have nuclear weapons and stealth bombers, or gpsOne guided cruise missiles. So the USA is quite a good location. Mqurice