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RSS FeedsScience versus the `Horatio Alger myth`
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22 february 2017 17:59:32

 
Science versus the `Horatio Alger myth`
(PHYSorg.com Physics)
 


In a new study published today in the journal PLOS ONE, Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have taken a condensed matter physics concept usually applied to the way substances such as ice freeze, called `frustration,` and applied it to a simple social network model of frustrated components. They show that inequality of wealth can emerge spontaneously and more equality can be gained by pure initiative.


 
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