The rise and fall in the popularity of major religions can be described using the same mathematics that is used to model crystallization processes, claim physicists in Belgium. The researchers have modelled the time evolution of the numbers of adherents to religions and claim that their work sheds light on an important social phenomenon — how a religion such as Christianity can grow rapidly from very small beginnings (Europhysics Letters (EPL) to be published).
(trouvé dans cet article de PhysicsWeb)
Ainsi donc les religions se développeraient comme des cristaux… comment ne pas y voir une preuve flagrante de l’Intelligent Design? ;)
