Contributed by: filbert Tuesday, January 29 2008 @ 11:30 AM CST
I’m not exactly sure what it is[*1] , but it sounds cool, and I’ll have to look into it one of these days . . .
Ever since a forward-thinking trio of physicists identified the phenomenon known as self-organized criticality—a mechanism by which complexity arises in nature—scientists have been applying its concepts to everything from economics to avalanches.