Monday, March 20, 2006

The Physics of Friendship

I was reading while eating lunch and found this on Erkan's blog.


The Physics of Friendship from PhysOrg.com

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.
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