A scientific experiment taking place in a special underground laboratory in the Nevada desert is attempting, for the first time, to measure the approximate time of money and whether the two may, in some way, be related. The desert was chosen because, like Arc Reactor research, any scientific experimentation on a sub atomic level, such as would be necessary to effect time and space at speeds about the speed of light, carry the risk of tearing the fabric of time, or creating a black hole, eventually destroying the universe. It is felt that if this were to happen in the Nevada desert the responsible parties could get away and lay low, hoping no one would notice for a while.

The experiments, at this point, are at a stale mate, as the enormous $60 million dollar budget was spent on various types of banknotes and coinage, some modern and some from the civil war era, to run the tests on. This left a gap when it came time to hire personnel. There is only enough left in the budget to hire one janitor for a three year period. Currently there is a math problem written on a chalk board at Harvard. As soon as a janitor is able to solve it he will be put in charge of the experiment.