"Social Laser": Action Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Social Energy

TL;DR

This paper introduces a quantum-like laser model to explain social explosions, proposing that social energy can be amplified through stimulated emission, offering a novel theoretical framework for understanding collective social phenomena.

Contribution

It presents a new quantum-like approach to model social explosions, applying laser physics concepts to social energy amplification.

Findings

Proposes a quantum-like laser model for social phenomena

Suggests social energy can be amplified via stimulated emission

Provides a novel theoretical framework for social explosions

Abstract

The problem of the "explanation" of recent social explosions, especially in the Middle East, but also in Southern Europe and the USA, have been debated actively in the social and political literature. We can mention the contributions of P. Mason, F. Fukuyama, E. Schmidt and J. Cohen, I. Krastev to this debate. We point out that the diversity of opinions and conclusions is really amazing. At the moment, there is no consistent and commonly acceptable theory of these phenomena. We present a model of social explosions based on a novel approach for the description of social processes, namely, the quantum-like approach. Here quantum theory is treated simply as an operational formalism - without any direct relation to physics. We explore the quantum-like laser model to describe the possibility of Action Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Social Energy (ASE).