Mason and Dixon on the New York Stock Exchange

[Monte Davis]

Nice catch on Lewis's Lambtonian or Tatzelwurmischimagery.

Note in the Wikipedia article that air transmission is faster than fiber
optics, albeit subject to more potential interference. The fastest
 solution would be an optically straight, hermetically sealed 827-mile tube
filled with nothing, nothing at all.


On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Thomas Eckhardt <
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> "By the summer of 2009 the line had a life of its own, and two thousand
> men were digging and boring the strange home it needed to survive. (...)
> The line was just a one-and-a-half-inch-wide hard black plastic tube
> designed to shelter four hundred hair-thin strands of glass, but it already
> had the feeling of a living creature, a subterranean reptile, with its
> peculiar needs and wants. It needed its burrow to be straight, maybe the
> most insistently straight path ever dug into the earth."
>
> Michael Lewis, "Flash Boys", 7.
>
> For what this is about, see:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_Networks
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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