Science is an ongoing effort to understand the world we live in. And as the world changes, as new, unexplained classes of questions emerge, there are attempts to try and understand them, leading to the development of a new branch of science.
One such branch of this ever-growing tree is opinion dynamics. The question it addresses is this: If a bunch of people have certain opinions on a topic and are allowed to interact among themselves by some method, then how does the group’s opinion evolve over time? Mathematical and physical models and computational tools are used to answer this question and to find insights in opinion formation among large groups of humans.
