Great find from Rob Usey at Psydex Corporation: This article is a survey of the emerging field of “sociophysics” which attempts to apply statistical mechanics to predict human social behavior. It’s very cool stuff if you’re interested in social networks, memes, sociology and prediction science. The article discusses recent progress towards Isaac Asimov’s vision for a science of Psychohistory as proposed in his Foundation stories. This relates in many ways to my previous article on “A Physics of Ideas” in which I proposed some elementary ways to measure the trajectories of memes as if they were moving particles in a Newtonian system.
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Hi Nova,
I just came across this article at the ArXiv. Perhaps you too will find it interesting.
Changing Opinions in a changing world: A new perspective on Sociophysocs:
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0410217
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i am a student majoring theoretical physics at the moment, i want to do sociophysics.