If there is no buyers and no sellers at all and I buy... what happen?
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- Sep 26, 2009 1:48am Sep 26, 2009 1:48am
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If there is no buyers and no sellers at all and I buy... what happen?
You'll get filled at a price which someone is prepared to sell to you, if one exists
Here's one for you.....if I'm driving a car at the speed of light and I turn the lights on what will happen?
- #3
- Sep 26, 2009 7:11am Sep 26, 2009 7:11am
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- #10
- Oct 10, 2009 4:05am Oct 10, 2009 4:05am
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Invincibility lies in the defence, the possibility of victory in the attack
- #11
- Oct 10, 2009 4:39am Oct 10, 2009 4:39am
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Invincibility lies in the defence, the possibility of victory in the attack
- #13
- Oct 10, 2009 8:39am Oct 10, 2009 8:39am
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wrong, just entangle yourself with a light particle and change your quantum state, its not rocket science!
Hahaha... if only. Don't forget the exclusion principle
.I wonder if you managed to entangle every bit of yourself if you'd survive the process, or whether what came out would be more blob than human. The problem with superpositioning is that the state of each particle is effectively lost in the process. You would have to transmit that information externally, limiting your journey to C at the fastest.
Altho that's less "traveling faster than C" and more "being teleported."
Remember, at one point the brightest scientists of the day thought a car, if it could go 55 mph, would be instant death for the driver and all in the car.
Really? I doubt that was believed for more than a few weeks, once the highway system came out cars could regularly go 55mph. There were plenty of test projects in the intervening 40 years, along with a lot of experience via airplane due to 2 world wars. Either way, the reasoning would have to be how many Gs the human body could withstand, which is very different.
The problem with C is that according to relativity it takes a geometric increase in force to further accelerate an object. The past force actually converts to energy, which further adds to the mass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_in_special_relativity
The reason light travels at this speed in a vacuum is that there's nothing to slow it down. Light has no self-mass, so it takes nothing to accelerate it. Thus, by definition, photons would go faster if they could. The reason they don't is because they can't. If a mass-less partical can't accelerate past C, how would a particle that has mass do it under normal circumstances?
I'm sure at some point we'll figure out a way to make it happen. Probably in a way that's completely unknown to us now, using some new massive source of energy. I mean in theory if you could collapse matter into a singularity you could create a wormhole, and maybe figure out a way to transmit matter thru it (no easy task). But that's way more power than we have now. That takes an energy level on par with what our sun will generate during it's entire life-time.
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As for trading... if you have no buyers or no sellers to take a counter position then no trades take place. Price doesn't actually go up until a trade is recorded at a price. The trader would have to change their price to attract a counter party. Once a trade takes place, a "tick" would record the new price. That's why price goes up or down.
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