James Brody
September 14th, 2008, 03:09 PM
Actually a far broader one than that. Kuramoto's model for sync - similarity and mutual influence lead to synchrony in stuff from fundamental particles to bike riders - appllies here and probably for reasons of temperament, activity level, age, and even religiosity...
JimB
Young evangelicals "aren't identifying as much with Palin's evangelicalism as with her emblematic role as everyday American - one of us, a normal, down to earth mom, parent, school volunteer," Lyons said. "This isn't a faith response, it's a human response."
More at http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080914/D936K3F00.html
See also:
Daniels, Bryan C. (2005) Synchronization of globally connected nonlinear oscillators: the rich behavior of the Kuramoto model. Physics Department: Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. Demo at http://physics.owu.edu/StudentResearch/2005/BryanDaniels/kuramoto.html
Strogatz, S. (2003) Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order. NY: Hyperion.
JimB
Young evangelicals "aren't identifying as much with Palin's evangelicalism as with her emblematic role as everyday American - one of us, a normal, down to earth mom, parent, school volunteer," Lyons said. "This isn't a faith response, it's a human response."
More at http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080914/D936K3F00.html
See also:
Daniels, Bryan C. (2005) Synchronization of globally connected nonlinear oscillators: the rich behavior of the Kuramoto model. Physics Department: Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. Demo at http://physics.owu.edu/StudentResearch/2005/BryanDaniels/kuramoto.html
Strogatz, S. (2003) Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order. NY: Hyperion.