Eric Weinstein

So in other words, if I do a euro trade, it's really a dollar-euro trade, and you and I are going to trade dollars for euros, and we agree to do it in two days' time.

And then if you want to keep the position on, you exchange that contract for a contract that will follow –

to erase that contract and form a new contract which pushes it out two days.

You call that rolling things over.

He didn't know that Dollar Canada was on a one-day contract rather than a two-day contract where everything else.

So in other words, there was an anomaly.

And anybody in currency trading would have known that.

Or I forget whether he didn't know that trading pounds for dollars is called cable in the business.

So there were just dumb tells

that he didn't know about foreign exchange.

So he's claiming to be an FX hedge fund manager to me, and there were stupid tells like that.

And then he knows way too much about my exactly particular specialty in mathematics.

The number of people could come from would be five or fewer.

So technically what I did my thesis on is something called self-dual Yang-Mills theory, which is about every force other than gravity is a Yang-Mills force.

Except my thesis was really about gravity.

And I didn't disclose it.

And only people very, very close to me knew that that's what it was about.

He was obsessed with gravity.

And he shows up, I think, in the Harvard Math Department in 2002 with Dick Gross.

And clearly he was talking to people in the Cambridge mathematical physics world who would have been, you know, there's something called the Chern-Simons theory, which is mistakenly associated closely with Yang-Mills theory, but is really all about gravity.