{"title":"Crowds start to spin when their densities hit a threshold","authors":"Antoine Tordeux","doi":"10.1038/d41586-025-00036-z","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Overcrowding can lead to disaster, and yet the dynamics of dense groups of people are poorly understood. Analysis of a festival uncovers collective rotational movements that emerge at critical densities, which could be universal. Video footage of people at a festival reveals collective rotations.","PeriodicalId":18787,"journal":{"name":"Nature","volume":"638 8049","pages":"41-42"},"PeriodicalIF":48.5000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nature","FirstCategoryId":"103","ListUrlMain":"https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00036-z","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Overcrowding can lead to disaster, and yet the dynamics of dense groups of people are poorly understood. Analysis of a festival uncovers collective rotational movements that emerge at critical densities, which could be universal. Video footage of people at a festival reveals collective rotations.
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