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Strategies & Market Trends : The Art of Investing
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From: Sun Tzu10/24/2025 12:04:16 PM
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One of my high schoolers is taking a course in theory of knowledge.
A question the teacher asked is, "Is there anything that is unknowable".

I told her yes, you cannot tell both the position and velocity of a quantum particle.
She said, we can't tell that now, but you'd have to prove that it cannot be known at some future time also, and maybe a hundred years from now scientist figure out how to tell.
Rather than explain the foundations of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, I decided to give her another example: You cannot know the closing price of stock market tomorrow. If you did, you'd buy the futures and then your act of buying would change the price.

As it turns out the two share a number of fundamentals: They are both probabilistic models with a lot of moving parts. And in both cases, your knowledge of events changes the outcome of the experiment.

Perhaps I should start a quantum trading fund <vbg>
Oh wait, Soros already took that name!
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