Wednesday, October 25, 2006

String theory and higher-dimensional real estate market

Most people think that the U.S. housing bubble has burst. Meanwhile, PRNewswire informs that
is an artist who is buying the rights to develop in half a dozen (or more) extra dimensions in California in general and San Francisco in particular for a few dollars.

Keats hopes to earn a lot of money. His strategy is a higher-dimensional version of Donald Trump's approach: Trump is buying the air in the third dimension above the buildings in California. Saul Perlmutter from Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory seems to supply the scientific insights that Keats needs in order to make a profit. See
for more details. Well, I wish the Gentlemen a lot of good luck in their business. ;-)