Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas

The findings were published in the July 22, 2011, early online edition of the journal Physical Review E in an article titled "Social consensus through the influence of committed minorities."

"When the number of committed opinion holders is below 10 percent, there is no visible progress in the spread of ideas.

It would literally take the amount of time comparable to the age of the universe for this size group to reach the majority," said SCNARC Director Boleslaw Szymanski, the Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor at Rensselaer.

"Once that number grows above 10 percent, the idea spreads like flame."

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A planetary shift is under way. Many sense this shift internally and we perceive that time is accelerating.

It's hard to keep up. We[base ']re constantly bombarded by an ever-increasing number of choices.
Emotions peak and ebb to extremes in the span of hours, even minutes.

Uncertainty seems to be on the rise about our personal direction and the world's.

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