Not only that, but Roberts says the new law is able to explain anomalies in past literature. "We found, on very careful reading, that there were niggling problems with these laws that were unexplained," he says. "This was a very lovely piece of science for me." The new law developed by Roberts and Haynes is also more intuitive. It predicts that "ants" in a fractal network will move through easier pathways faster than through harder pathways. Applied to the spread of disease this means a disease will spread more in directions where there are a greater number of connections between people. "While you would expect you would get greater disease transfer where there were greater connections, the current laws don't actually show that - ours does," says Roberts. Related Links: |
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