Topic: Want to predict if your non-violent movement will succeed? Ask Isaac Newton

+Cook My Own Breakfast !!IpftyHSqdT — 6.8 years ago #53,646

So, this one is truly interesting: using physics to try to model political movements success probability.

Abstract:

When Isaac Newton first attempted to describe momentum in his 1687 work Principia, he hit upon an eloquent formula—an object's momentum is its mass times its velocity. Or P=MV.

Now, scientists from Brunel University London and Harvard University have demonstrated how the same formula can be used to help predict whether a non-violent political movement will be successful.

It's hoped the findings, published in Nature Human Behaviour, can help dissidents involved in non-violent resistance assess their power.

Full story:
https://phys.org/news/2019-08-non-violent-movement-isaac-newton.html

+Anonymous B — 6.8 years ago, 15 hours later[T] [B] #567,905

dicks out for Harambe

·Cook My Own Breakfast !!IpftyHSqdT (OP) — 6.8 years ago, 9 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #567,928

Nothing out for Harambe, sir. Please, stop this

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