When science took over teaching as the primary method of education, so did a wave of reawakening in people’s approach to philosophy and religion. Instead of “blindly” believe that the God(s)*, more and more people turn to science for answers. For the longest time, the religious followers refuse to believe that “life” was just a fluke and that they are descendents of monkies (ahem, chimps; there’s a difference). They also believe that nothing ever happens by chance and that there’s a meaning for everything that happens. In other words, God(s) has/have a bigger plan.
True that belief may be. But science just scored another point in that arena to its favor. For a long time science could only go so far as to prove and predict how and why certain relationships work and don’t work in social dynamics. But now there’s a new research that shows how certain “fate” in friendships can be scientifically proven and quantified.
By comparing people to mobile particles randomly bouncing off each other, scientists have developed a new model for social networks. The model fits with empirical data to naturally reproduce the community structure, clustering and evolution of general acquaintances and even sexual contacts.
Applying a mathematical model to the social dynamics of people presents difficulties not involved with more physical – and perhaps more rational – applications. The many factors that influence an individual’s fate to meet an acquaintance and decide to become a friend are impossible to capture, but physicists have used techniques from physical systems to model social networks with near precision.
Maybe this is still too far fetch to definitively link “destinies” to physics. But it’s scary the kinds of things physics/pure mathematics can do**.
* If you are a Christian, you are only permitted to pray to ONE god, or else everything else can be sacred like how the Native Idians view the world.
** The “Game Theory” developed by John von Neumann and later improved upon by John Nash was developed using pure mathematics, not some philosophical or social dynamics theory. Just math!
via [Slashdot]