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The Biggest Problem in the World, Social Physics
Colin R's work happens against the backdrop of a major civil war that becomes the belgian revolution. His biggest project is something that he calls social physics. He analyzes data sets about people, and is trying to look for a sort of social quotunquote, laws that kind of mimic the laws of physics. The average was what everyone should aspire to in his mind.
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