June 17th, 2006
The energy field has it's basis in physics. Most to the time physics has it's basis in natural law. One of the more simplistic yet elegant laws is Zipf's law. Zipf's law states that for populations, the population is inversely proportional to the rank. Therefore successive populations are roughly proportional to 1, ½, 1/3, ¼, 1/5….
The following table shows Zipf's law as applied to U.S. city population and the Modified Law which more accurately reflects the U.S. city population sample set:
| Rank | City |
Population (1990) |
Unmod. Zipf's Law |
Modified Zipf's Law (n-2/5)y)3/4 |
| 1 | N.Y. | 7,322,564 | 10,000,000 | 7,334,265 |
| 7 | Detroit | 1,027,974 | 1,428,571 | 1,214,261 |
| 13 | Baltimore | 736,014 | 769,231 | 747,639 |
Zipf's law interestingly and also applies to business sector competition as well as yet unimagined other applications.