  We formulate the Secant Conjecture, which is a generalization of the Shapiro
Conjecture for Grassmannians. It asserts that an intersection of Schubert
varieties in a Grassmannian is transverse with all points real, if the flags
defining the Schubert varieties are secant along disjoint intervals of a
rational normal curve. We present theoretical evidence for it as well as
computational evidence obtained in over one terahertz-year of computing, and we
discuss some phenomena we observed in our data.
