Why so many elections in 2024? Chalk it up to the ‘beauty of math,’ says professor

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Why so many elections in 2024? Chalk it up to the ‘beauty of math,’ says professor
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Tuesday’s vote in the United States is just one of more than 70 national elections that will have taken place this year by the end of December.

A sign marking a polling station is seen in Halifax on Nova Scotia's provincial election day, May 30, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese.Tuesday’s vote in the United States may be dominating social media feeds, but it is just one of more than 70 national elections that will have taken place this year by the end of December.

“It’s something that looks amazing, but really, it’s just this interesting property of oscillators that every once in a while, they’ll all line up,” the University of British Columbia professor said. “It just happens. Which is pretty cool.”Millions at stake in potential B.C. port labour disputeTrudeau says Diwali message of ‘light over darkness’ important to all Canadians

If we represent each country with a pendulum, with its length and period corresponding to the country’s election cycle, this year — 2024 — is a point at which they all swung in unison, just for a moment.The same thing happens with planets, Tyson noted. Each takes a different amount of time to complete one full orbit around the sun. Most of the time they’re zinging around completely out of sync with one another. But sometimes, some of their trajectories can line up, she said.

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