Apparently, efficient market hypothesis has found its way into particle physics.
But concerns have been voiced – in particular by the German chemist Professor Otto Rossler – that black holes created by the LHC will grow uncontrollably and “eat the planet from the inside”.
These claims have been dismissed by leading scientists, including Prof Stephen Hawking of Cambridge University who said that the LHC is “feeble compared with what goes on in the universe. If a disaster was going to happen, it would have happened already.” [Large Hadron Collider is activated. Telegraph. September 10 2008]
Economics was inspired by physics but economics definitely has gone a long way since the days of Jevons and Walras. Proof: it has become an inspiration to physics.
The circle is now complete.
