The nerdiest academic paper ever

[ITWhore]

www.princeton.edu/~pkrugm...tellar.pdf

Quote:First Fundamental Theorem of Interstellar Trade: When trade takes place between two planets in a common inertial frame, the interest costs on goods in transit should be calculated using time measured by clocks in the common frame, and not by clocks in the frames of trading spacecraft.

Oh my!

[David Cressey]

Did you ever look into what happened to mortgage payments when the British Empire changed from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar?  

(October 1752,  IIRC).  

Aside: Imagine George Washington having his birthday moved by calendar wonks even before he becomes famous?