摘要： Analogous to crustal earthquakes in natural fault systems, we here consider the dynasty collapses as extreme events in human society. Duration data of ancient Chinese and Egyptian dynasties provides a good chance of exploring the collective behavior of the so-called social atoms. By means of the rank-ordering statistics, we demonstrate that the duration data of those ancient dynasties could be described with good accuracy by the Weibull distribution. It is thus amazing that the distribution of time to failure of human society, i.e. the disorder of a historical dynasty, follows the widely accepted Weibull process as natural material fails. 出版者： EPS, SIF, EDP Sciences and IOP Publishing 出版日期： 2012-02 出處： Europhysics letters, 2012-02, Vol.97 (4), p.48010 資源來源： Institute of Physics Journals 識別號： ISSN: 0295-5075 識別號： EISSN: 1286-4854 識別號： DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/97/48010
