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[ original email was from John Greenan - john.greenan@alignment-systems.com ]
Can I just post every question I can think of here and hope that someone answers???
[ original email was from John Harris - john.harris@bondmart.com ]
> Can I just post every question I can think of here and hope that someone answers???
Please don’t discourage this fellow, John. Before the day is done he is bound to start asking the really big questions (e.g., “Is God so powerful that He can create a stone that even He cannot move?”) and I am looking forward to Hanno’s patient and gracious replies 
Sure.
Thats entirely dependent on the version of FIX God decides to use.
[ original email was from John Greenan - john.greenan@alignment-systems.com ]
> > Can I just post every question I can think of here and hope that someone answers???
Please don’t discourage this fellow, John. Before the day is done he is bound to start asking the really big questions (e.g., “Is God so powerful that He can create a stone that even He cannot move?”) and I am looking forward to Hanno’s patient and gracious replies
What about if God is travelling at the speed of light and gets so het up he starts throwing these stones. Do the stones go faster than light?
We should probably create a working group to address the low latency case where god throws the stone when he is already traveling at the speed of light and a separate but related working group to address the issue of the weight of the stone and God’s ability to move it. These somehow seem very relevant and important with the current trend toward trying to measure the performance of general purpose computing platforms in nanoseconds.
[ original email was from Tommy Hannon - th2006@cox.net ]
With God traveling at the speed of light, we must assume he is massless and pure energy. If a further assumption is made that this energy is infinite and boundless, then the weight of the stone is irrelevant. The question would be… can it exceed the speed of light?
We should probably create a working group to address the low latency case where god throws the stone when he is already traveling at the speed of light and a separate but related working group to address the issue of the weight of the stone and God’s ability to move it. These somehow seem very relevant and important with the current trend toward trying to measure the performance of general purpose computing platforms in nanoseconds.
Actually a better question is can we make money from this…
In which case the standard Lorentz transforms and Causality questions come into play…
Hence, theoretically speaking of course, one could execute a trade, before knowing the price, but actually knowing the price…
Therefore God becomes the perfect trader…
Hmmmm
At the end of the day only Renaissance could afford it as they have “More money than God”
Oh well
With God traveling at the speed of light, we must assume he is massless and pure energy. If a further assumption is made that this energy is infinite and boundless, then the weight of the stone is irrelevant. The question would be… can it exceed the speed of light?
We should probably create a working group to address the low latency case where god throws the stone when he is already traveling at the speed of light and a separate but related working group to address the issue of the weight of the stone and God’s ability to move it. These somehow seem very relevant and important with the current trend toward trying to measure the performance of general purpose computing platforms in nanoseconds.
[ original email was from Greg Wood - greg.wood@credit-suisse.com ]
I think we should seriously consider this question in light of current industry wide discussions. There is clear insider knowledge and potential market manipulation by simple intent to move this stone once it is created. Is this stone listed or considered an over-the-counter stone ? Also by already traveling at the speed of light there is an unequal playing field for any other deities or non-deities that might also wish to move the stone. Other deities might be able to afford such high speed access to the stone, but it is out of the question for mere mortals. How unfair is that ?
How about we should create a philosophical forum for such important questions and keep the QA forum for the trivial stuff.
With God traveling at the speed of light, we must assume he is massless and pure energy. If a further assumption is made that this energy is infinite and boundless, then the weight of the stone is irrelevant. The question would be… can it exceed the speed of light?
We should probably create a working group to address the low latency case where god throws the stone when he is already traveling at the speed of light and a separate but related working group to address the issue of the weight of the stone and God’s ability to move it. These somehow seem very relevant and important with the current trend toward trying to measure the performance of general purpose computing platforms in nanoseconds.
[ original email was from John Greenan - john.greenan@alignment-systems.com ]
Well, if we could travel at lightspeed then according to various of the Superman movies - the Christopher Reeves ones - not the postmodern slightly poor re-imagining - we could travel back in time.
Now I’m not sure what the rest of the FIX community would do but I’d go back to 19th May 1984. To a sunny day in North London where my beloved Watford Football Club (soccer to our transatlantic cousins) took on Everton in the FA Cup Final. Tragically due to the cheating of a specific individual who will not be named we lost the game. This has impinged upon my life ever since. By putting this wrong right I’m sure I would have ended up deciding to invent HFT. Then I could have made enough money to hire someone clever to explain relativity and how the stone thrown by God travelling at the speed of light cannot travel any faster even though this is counter intuitive for mere mortals.
Having done that my work would be complete and I’d retire and just hurl the odd brickbat at postings on the FPL website, just for fun and games…
Can I just post every question I can think of^W^W^W^W^W homework question I have here and hope that someone answers???
Can I just post every question I can think of here and hope that someone answers???
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
[ original email was from Andrew Karsgaard - andrew.karsgaard@bmo.com ]
> > Can I just post every question I can think of here and hope that someone answers???
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
African or European swallow?