Financial Spacetime Textbook: From Classical Arbitrage to Ontological Transition - Softcover

Xu, Cheng

Softcover

ISBN 10: 999935128X ISBN 13: 9789999351287

Publisher: Eliva Press, 2026

Synopsis

Financial Spacetime Textbook: From Classical Arbitrage to Ontological Transition offers a radical re-founding of how we understand markets, wealth, and risk. Drawing on the successive revolutions of physics—from Newtonian absolute space and time, through Einsteinian curved spacetime, to quantum measurement and many-worlds branching—it equips readers with a powerful new geometric language for finance. The book progresses through three levels of arbitrage. Classical arbitrage is the work of the porter: eliminating price discrepancies inside a fixed, flat geometry. Relativistic arbitrage is the work of the gardener: diagnosing when an entire credit system is curving toward collapse and switching the wealth worldline into a more stable continuum before the event horizon closes. The highest level is spacetime engineering—the architect’s art of creating entirely new value continua and the wormholes that connect them. Along the way the text examines liquidity black holes, the information paradox of systemic crises, the observer effect in algorithmic markets, and the ethics of exit when elites can change maps while others remain behind. Anchored in rigorous literature yet written with philosophical clarity, this textbook speaks to serious investors, portfolio managers, policymakers, scholars, and intellectually ambitious readers who sense that conventional finance has reached the limits of its Newtonian paradigm. In an age of monetary experimentation, technological discontinuity, and recurring systemic stress, Financial Spacetime provides both a diagnostic toolkit and a call to higher agency: stop merely repairing the old geometry—learn to read its curvature, migrate when necessary, and, when possible, help build the next one. Where will your worldline lead?

Edition details

• Publisher: Eliva Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 999935128X
• ISBN 13: 9789999351287
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 49