This afternoon I was so hungry and tired after 4 hs of lecturing at the university that went to sleep. I felt myself travelling in space, accelerating near dense "black holes" and flying through long empty stretches. Space was stretched like a liquid rubber pool and saw that the NASDAQ in New York was in a depression with its large clock on the wall moving s l o w l y . Another look at red hot Colorado Springs gravitational anomaly with people heavier and clocks running fast. The difference was 200 miligals! If I could run an arbitrage program on a computer in Colorado, a place where time flows torrentially, and execute the orders on the placid NASDAQ with its sleepy clock, I could have an advantage on NASDAQ and its traders's slow motion computers.
But it takes time to communicate from and to Colorado, which neutralizes my advantage. I remembered TAU Prof. Aharonsohn and his discovery, whereby one particle affects its twin one immediately at any distance in space. Instant communication! I was working out the engineering details when my wife woke me up with one of those female worries (related to my daughter's marriage next week). How can I ever get rich with a woman with so terrestrial, so earth bounded?
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I missed the part where you make money from this idea? The dream was probably about to explain that part but then you woke up. I hate when that happens and it always does.
K
I am in Colorado where time flies faster that in catatonic New York. I have a fast computer, NASDAQ traders have slow, sleepy computers. My computer recognizes immediately what is happening and reacts faster than rival computers.
Its physics.
I think I should explain (at Wharton they dont teach physics). The space-time continuum deflects in the proximity of mass. In Colorado there is a huge gravity anomaly which makes time move faster (it is real, but very very small) and people to weight a bit more. Computers in Colorado operate a little more faster than in New York. In my dream (obviously related with my subject matter of fluid dynamics) I was about to find a way to exploit this phenomenon and make buckets of gold.
I think you should exploit the weight loss thing. In the US, people (especially women) are always looking to lose weight and are willing to spend big money on weight loss programs. You could promote flights from Colorado to NY, promising that the tour members would "lose weight" as a result of the trip. Too bad it's 1 millionth of a gram and they would gain it back when they got home.
K
PS Colorado Springs is a hotbed of Christian Fundamentalism and not the best place for a Jew to live in America. The Air Force Academy enrolls very few Jews, especially compared to top US universities where the Jewish enrollment is 30% or more. The gravitational anomaly I assume comes from the mass of the Rocky Mountains. There are other cities in Colorado that you would find more congenial to Jews and yet equally high in gravity.
K
My next dream will take me to another anomalous spot on Earth or some other place.
If you can communicate instantly at a distance, you could situate your trading desk somewhere with really high gravity - perhaps on another planet. Or you could increase your velocity to slow time down and trade from your spaceship.
Meanwhile I think Goldman Sachs already thought of this scheme but with a much simpler basis - they simply manipulated the rules of NASDAQ so that they would get access to trades a few seconds before the peons.
It should be noted that the "quants" (math geniuses) that the hedge funds hire to design their trading programs often have scientific backgrounds. The son of a cousin of mine was studying for a PhD in theoretical physics and one of the job opportunities he had when he graduated was going to work on Wall Street - the mathematics of quantum physics are not unlike those used for trading. Perhaps you could model stocks as particles in a fluid and predict the market this way.
K
Unfortunately fluids are very complex and/or chaotic. There are no good models, so we have to build physical models like wind tunnels to see what happens. I dont know how to build a physical model of NASDAQ.
I don't know either - you're the engineer!
K
PS Colorado Springs is a hotbed of Christian Fundamentalism and not the best place for a Jew to live in America.
WTF?
Congratulations on you daughter.
Anon.
WTF? Try Google and see what you come up with. Most of the problem was at the USAF Academy. I admit that there are no pogroms in the streets of Colorado and (nowadays) they allow Jews to take tea at the Broadmoor. Many younger people are unaware of this but in the US it was common until at least the 1940s for better hotels (such as the Broadmoor) to be "restricted" which was a code word for "no Jews allowed" . The Nazis gave anti-Semitism a really bad name and after WWII the "restricted" signs pretty much disappeared.
K
I dont drink tea. Could I have a coffee?
Tea in this context is the name of a light meal, served between lunch and dinner (e.g. at 4 PM). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_(meal)#Afternoon_tea
Some hotels in America serve English style afternoon tea meals. For some reason women particularly enjoy the ritual.
So you could drink coffee at a tea.
I have a funny story in this regard. We once visited the Broadmoor and my wife had been bugging me to "have tea" there (meaning the afternoon tea meal), and I for some reason was not in the mood (probably because it is highly overpriced). But as we were walking thru the lobby of the hotel (a grand old fashioned hotel) I noticed that tea and coffee urns had been set up outside a conference room (so that the attendees of some conference could grab refreshments during a break in their conference). I quickly grabbed a paper cup, filled it with tea and handed it to my wife. Here, I said, now you have had tea at the Broadmoor!
K
She was not amused, I presume.
No, but I can't help exercising my unfortunate sense of humor even when it gets me in trouble.
K
You would do well in North Korea, or perhaps Zimbabwe.
Anon.
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