The insurance company I used to work at had legit scientists - people with masters and phds in fields like hydrology - to help develop loss models for property

The insurance company I used to work at had legit scientists - people with masters and phds in fields like hydrology - to help develop loss models for property & casualty incidents. I'm half joking when I say that the first company to come up with a technology to travel faster than light will be a bank or a hedge fund or a high frequency trading firm. Hire the top theoretical physicists in the world for 7 figure salaries, certainly more than they could ever make in academia or research labs - and throw them at the problem. If a company is willing to spend $300m for a 3ms advantage, imagine how much one would be willing to spend for literally instantaneous transactions.