IS IT FOTON FINANCE OR PHOTON PHINANCE?

University disciplines these days broadly divide into no science, soft science, hard science and theoretical science. Departmental separation obscures the fact that all knowledge is one. No where is this more evident than in the fact that theoretical physicists use abstract math and the world’s fastest computers to arrive at the same conclusions about matter and origins of the universe as some of the world’s greatest philosophers. The similarity between archaic definitions of physics and philosophy is remarkable, physics being defined as the “study of natural philosophy” (American Heritage Dictionary, 1973).

Armed with this kernel of wisdom, MM set out on its own mission of discovery. We wanted to know what it is about shipping banking that appeals to “rocket scientists” like MIT-educated Mr. Hamish Norton, recently of Lazard Freres & Co., who had a promising career in nuclear physics ahead of him before opting for the arcane, surreal world of shipping finance. We surprised even ourselves by finding some similarities that refute the notion that these are totally unrelated disciplines.

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