Juan Maldacena is trying to do the impossible: explain the symmetry principles and the Higgs mechanism using analogies that one would find in economics.
I'm not making this up! :)
If you follow the link above, you will get the actual paper, which is an Open Access article. Read for yourself! :)
I am not sure if non-physicists will be able to understand it. If you are a non-physicist, and you went through the entire paper, let me know! I'm curious.
Zz.
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In one of his pop science books, David Deutsch tries to explain the way a wavefunction or density matrix can be sliced and diced into different linear combinations. He calls this "fungibility". The economic analogy is not quite right, but I can't think of a better term myself.
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