A Serge Galam 30-31 Mar 2015 sociophysics workshop (ΡΊ), at CEVIPOF, Paris, focused on applications to terrorism problems, run in coordination with economist Sacha Gironde and scientist Natasa Golo.
Overview In 2003, Russian-born Israeli electronics-power engineer and social theorist Raddai Raikhlin, in his Civil War, Terrorism and Gangs, outlined a Prigoginean thermodynamics based theory of war, in which he utilizes concepts such as: fluctuation, bifurcation, temperature, entropy (entropy and social morals), degradation, pressure, ‘links’ (cohesion), force (field of forces of the hierarchy), flow (speed and pressure of flow), and ensembles: people modeled as atoms, molecules, and or quantums, among other concepts, to explain social change. [1]
In 2006, American chemist Harold Leonard’s made the suggestion, in the Journal of Chemical Education that Frederick Rossini's 1971 “Chemical Thermodynamics in the Real”, which outlines some of the basics of the science of human chemical thermodynamics (or physicochemical humanities), i.e. chemical thermodynamics applied socially, might help us “find a formula for fighting terrorism, while preserving civil liberties”, in a post 9/11 world. [2] The proposition was vehemently objected to specifically by American Christianity-believing physical chemist John Wojcik (Dec 2006), who inflamed the “Rossini debate” into subsidence. [3]
