> If people want to trade stocks every hundredth of a nanosecond, why not let them? > but if that meaningless-seeming competition between high-frequency tradin

> If people want to trade stocks every hundredth of a nanosecond, why not let them? > but if that meaningless-seeming competition between high-frequency trading firms helps subsidize basic research to improve our understanding of time itself, isn’t that kind of cool? Seems to me this guy is really struggling to reach the conclusion his editor wants..