The roots of the subprime crisis | 71 comments (71 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: The roots of the subprime crisis (4.00 / 4)

I react strongly (and negatively) whenever somebody describes Quantum Mechanics as "non-linear." Quantum Mechanics is a linear theory. In fact, linearity is axiomatic to QM.

QM is strange and interesting in a lot of ways. But non-linearity isn't one of them.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 03:17:26 PM EST
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Re: The roots of the subprime crisis (4.00 / 2)

I will take your word for that, Jake, and stand corrected.

But I guess what I am getting at is that the equation that applies in the economic era we are now entering is e=mc squared, where e = "economic value" and c relates to connectivity...

"The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 03:31:03 PM EST
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Then you'll probably want to look into the mathematics on neural and scale-free networks.

Migeru has some interesting ideas about analogies between thermodynamics and economics and fluid dynamics and economics.

But all of these areas are a bit far afield from my own area of expertise.

The dynamics of nonlinear differential equations might also be worth a shot (i.e. classical chaos theory - but if you google nonlinear differential equations, you'll get less pseudophilosophical crap than if you google chaos theory).

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Wed Mar 12th, 2008 at 10:06:39 AM EST
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Reaction-diffusion.

It'd be nice if the battle were only against the right wingers, not half of the left on top of that — François in Paris

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Mar 12th, 2008 at 03:02:51 PM EST
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The roots of the subprime crisis | 71 comments (71 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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