Does this apply to other situations besides events? Are there any scientific explanation for a "tipping point" to occur?
Is that the same as a "turning point"? The moment in time when forces are optimal for a specific change or reaction. That could be similar to reaching "critical mass" or something in the scientific realm.
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you obviously have some very specific events in mind. perhaps you could be more specific so that we can answer more exactly. PIMCO - Event Linked Bond Basics::
How do investors determine where that tipping point is? To evaluate an event-linked bond, investors need a thorough understanding of the
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In sociology, a tipping point or angle of repose is the event of a previously rare phenomenon becoming rapidly and dramatically more common. The phrase was coined in its sociological use by Morton Grodzins, by analogy with the fact in physics that when a small amount of weight is added to a balanced object, it can cause it to suddenly and completely topple.
Grodzins studied integrating American neighborhoods in the early 1960s. He discovered that most of the white families would remain in the neighborhood so long as the comparative number of black families remained very small. But, at a certain point, when "one too many" black families arrived, the remaining white families would move out en masse in a process known as white flight. He called that moment the "tipping point." The idea was expanded and built upon by Nobel Prize-winner Thomas Schelling in 1972. A similar idea underlies Mark Granovetter's threshold model of collective behavior.
The Recruiting Tipping Point : ERE.net::
What was special about this event was a sea change of ideas that collectively of segmentation is an essential part of moving through and beyond the tipping point.
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Other uses
The phrase has extended beyond its original meaning, and has been applied to any process in which, beyond a certain point, the rate at which the process proceeds increases dramatically. It has been applied in many fields from economics to epidemiology. It can also be compared to phase transition in physics or the propagation of populations in an unbalanced ecosystem.
The Role of Tipping Point Marketing in Web 2.0 | Leveraging Ideas::
In my last post I alluded to something I called tipping point marketing. This is a phenomenon that is hugely relevant to web a tipping point event can produce.
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enterprises across the globe, and security information and event devices such as Symantec, Tipping Point, NetContinuum, Nortel switches and Sendmail.
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Mathematically, the angle of repose may be seen as an inflection point. In control theory, the concept of positive feedback describes the same phenomenon, with the problem of balancing an inverted pendulum being the classic embodiment. The concept has been applied to the popular acceptance of new technologies. It was used to explain the success of VHS over Betamax, for instance.[citation needed]
In popular culture
The term was popularised in application to daily life by Malcolm Gladwell's 2000 bestselling book The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference.
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