Thursday, November 8, 2007

The Speed of Sound

Well, it finally happened. Physicists have managed to decode the spread of gossip. You may now return to your homes.

..."“At a first glance, our central hypothesis may seem obvious: In social systems the number of friends influences the danger of being gossiped,” said Pedro Lind, a physicist at the Institute of Computational Physics at the University of Stuttgart, in Germany, to PhysOrg.com. “But the hypothesis says more than that: Our results show that the optimal number of friends to minimize gossip spreading is neither very large nor very low...”

"Now they'll never realize that we have yet to prove things like the theory of universal gravity," rejoicing scientists were later heard saying as they toasted over what must be ether fumes.

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