If you actually think about it (which I am by no means suggesting you do)...
> $800 - $350 million in ten trading days, that's a 3.7-fold increase every day. Even with insider trading, improbable if not impossible.
> 126 high-risk trades, all yielding very high profits. Assuming that the story is true, and assuming that the guy just might be an inside trader, then he has some SERIOUS connections.
> physical impossibility of time travel: the time elapsed between Newton's Laws of Motion and QM+Relativity was approximately 250 years. In that time, the foundation of modern physics was reinvented. Thus, it would be plausible that two revampings of physical theory could take place before 2256. These may be able to make time travel possible, though there's no way in H--- they coudl work around the causality problem (at least that I can see). For those not in the know:
Causality problem example: In a supreme act of selflessness and utter boredom, you travel back in time to the Titanic, and succeed in averting disaster. Everyone lives, including a man who, 5 years later, will accidentally run over (and kill) a child who will become your grandfather, thus causing a collapse of your family tree. Because of this, you are never born. But, if you were never born, you would never have been able to time-travel to the Titanic and save your grandfather's killer. Da Capo.
> I pray that cryogenics will, within the next 80 years, advance to the point where a cryogenically preserved body could be reanimated. Then, I could time-travel back here and do some insider trading (and sell grapefruit-sized quantum computers I bring back to the highest bidder).
> $800 - $350 million in ten trading days, that's a 3.7-fold increase every day. Even with insider trading, improbable if not impossible.
> 126 high-risk trades, all yielding very high profits. Assuming that the story is true, and assuming that the guy just might be an inside trader, then he has some SERIOUS connections.
> physical impossibility of time travel: the time elapsed between Newton's Laws of Motion and QM+Relativity was approximately 250 years. In that time, the foundation of modern physics was reinvented. Thus, it would be plausible that two revampings of physical theory could take place before 2256. These may be able to make time travel possible, though there's no way in H--- they coudl work around the causality problem (at least that I can see). For those not in the know:
Causality problem example: In a supreme act of selflessness and utter boredom, you travel back in time to the Titanic, and succeed in averting disaster. Everyone lives, including a man who, 5 years later, will accidentally run over (and kill) a child who will become your grandfather, thus causing a collapse of your family tree. Because of this, you are never born. But, if you were never born, you would never have been able to time-travel to the Titanic and save your grandfather's killer. Da Capo.
> I pray that cryogenics will, within the next 80 years, advance to the point where a cryogenically preserved body could be reanimated. Then, I could time-travel back here and do some insider trading (and sell grapefruit-sized quantum computers I bring back to the highest bidder).
