'We need to forget about time at the most fundamental level . We don't need that particular parameter to describe the wo rld that surrounds us. The theo retical framework I propose allows us to do with o u t it: this is the fram ework of loop quantum gravity. ' So speaks the physicist Carlo Rovell i , an adept, l ike so many others, at the confusion of the general relativity of the physics of the infinitely big and the quantum mechanics of the i n finitely smal l .
After the End of History was fo recast last century, the End of Time is now b ei ng forecast, certainly i n theo retical physics, b u t also i n relation to political economics.
In the end, what is most reveal ing i n this general disarray is perhaps what Benoit Mandelb rot claimed in 2004, when he said that the conventional mathematical models employed by the stock market 'are not only wrong; they are dangerously wro ng. ' 1
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1 Benoit M anddbrot, The (Mis)Behaviour of Mm·kets. New York: Basic Books, 2004, p . 276 .
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