Crashing market, hidden dragon?

• Autores: Lisa Grossman
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2944, 2013, págs. 8-9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • From his lab at the Federal University of Paraiba in Brazil, Hugo Cavalcante detected the warning signs of an epic crash. At the last minute, he managed to nudge his system back to safety. Crisis averted. This experiment is the first to show that a class of extreme events, colorfully called dragon-kings, can be predicted and suppressed in a real, physical system. The feat suggests that some day people may also be able to predict, or in some cases prevent some of the catastrophes in the real world that seem unstoppable, including financial crashes, brain seizures and storms.