Worldlines and social networks

TL;DR

This paper applies physical laws to model human social relations using worldlines and networks, offering a novel framework for understanding societal interactions through physics-inspired models.

Contribution

It introduces a new approach combining physics principles with social network modeling, focusing on binary relationships like marriage as dynamic systems.

Findings

Developed a two-level coordinate system for social interactions.

Illustrated models with simple, semi-quantitative examples.

Proposed a flexible framework for future extensions and applications.

Abstract

Familiar laws of physics are applied to study human relations, modelled by their world lines (worldlines, WLs) combined with social networks. We focus upon the simplest, basic element of any society: a married couple, stable due to the dynamic balance between attraction and repulsion. By building worldlines/worldsheets, we arrive at a two-level coordinate systems: one describing the behaviour of a string-like binary system (here, a married couple), the other one, external, corresponding to the motion of this couple in the medium, in which the worldline is embedded, sweeping there a string-like sheet or brane. The approach is illustrated by simple examples (semi-quantitative toy models) of worldlines/sheets, open to further extension, perfections and generalization. World lines (WLs) are combined with social networks (SN). Our innovation is in the application of basic physical laws, attraction and repulsion to human behaviour. Simple illustrative examples with empirical inputs taken from intuition and/or observation are appended. This is an initial attempt, open to unlimited applications.