Quantum Field Theory of Social Dynamics: Solitons, Environmental Vacua, and Collective Multipliers
Abstract / Introduction In complex social systems, stability and radical change often coexist. Throughout history, most periods have exhibited a high degree of social stability, in which individual behavior is heavily constrained by institutions, culture, and economic conditions, making transformation appear distant and improbable. Yet, at certain critical moments, a small number of highly coherent actors or ideas manage to combine with specific organizational networks, triggering avalanche-like societal transformations. From the French Revolution to digital platform revolutions, the phenomenon of “a few critical interactions triggering global reconfiguration” constitutes a central puzzle in social dynamics. Traditional sociological and sociophysical models, largely based on statistical mechanics or complex networks, excel at describing macro trends and average behavior but struggle to capture the “sudden, nonlinear, and self-sustaining” nature of transformative mechanisms. To ...