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The problem of Turing pattern formation has attracted much attention in nonlinear science as well as physics, chemistry and biology. So far all Turing patterns have been observed in stationary and oscillatory media only. In this letter we…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Jinghua Xiao , Junzhong Yang , Gang Hu

Many systems involve numerous interacting parts and the whole system can have properties that the individual parts do not. I take this novelty as the defining characteristic of an emergent property. Other characteristics associated with…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Ross H. McKenzie

Research done during the previous century established our Standard Cosmological Model. There are many details still to be filled in, but few would seriously doubt the basic premise. Past surveys have revealed that the large-scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Bernard J. T. Jones , Vicent J. Martinez , Enn Saar , Virginia Trimble

The primordial confrontation underlying the existence of our universe can be conceived as the battle between entropy and complexity. The law of ever-increasing entropy (Boltzmann H-theorem) evokes an irreversible, one-directional evolution…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-18 Sorin Solomon , Natasa Golo

Many systems of interest exhibit nested emergent layers with their own rules and regularities, and our knowledge about them seems naturally organised around these levels. This paper proposes that this type of hierarchical emergence arises…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-02 Fernando E. Rosas

In the context of a particular framework of emergent quantum mechanics, it is argued the emergent origin of the inertial mass of a physical systems. Two main consequences of the theory are discussed: an emergent interpretation of the law of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Ricardo Gallego Torromé , J. M. Isidro , Pedro Fernández de Córdoba

The only widely accepted explanation for the various arrows of time that everywhere and at all epochs point in the same direction is the `past hypothesis': the Universe had a very special low-entropy initial state. We present the first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-11 Julian Barbour , Tim Koslowski , Flavio Mercati

A perplexing problem in understanding physical reality is why the universe seems comprehensible, and correspondingly why there should exist physical systems capable of comprehending it. In this essay I explore the possibility that rather…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-11-10 Sara Imari Walker

Time evolution of the cities and of the languages is considered in terms of multiplicative noise and fragmentation processes; where power law (Pareto-Zipf law) and slightly asymmetric log-normal (Gauss) distribution result for the size…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Tuncay

Many biological phenomena or social events critically depend on how information evolves in complex networks. However, a general theory to characterize information evolution is yet absent. Consequently, numerous unknowns remain about the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Yang Tian , Guoqi Li , Pei Sun

We explore the border between regular and chaotic quantum dynamics, characterized by a power law decrease in the overlap between a state evolved under chaotic dynamics and the same state evolved under a slightly perturbed dynamics. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Yaakov S. Weinstein , Constantino Tsallis , Seth Lloyd

Emergence is a pregnant property in various fields. It is the fact for a phenomenon to appear surprisingly and to be such that it seems at first sight that it is not possible to predict its apparition. That is the reason why it has often…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Hervé Zwirn

We discuss a very naive but natural idea that time emerges as the holographic dimension of gauge systems in euclidean space, which take statistic, e.g. Ising model as concrete implementations. By identifying the renormalization group flow…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-01 Ding-Fang Zeng

A new concept, primitive chaos, was proposed, as a concept closely related to the fundamental problems of sciences themselves such as determinism, causality, free will, predictability, and time asymmetry [{\em J. Phys. Soc. Jpn.} {\bf…

General Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-30 Yoshihito Ogasawara

We suggest a new scenario in which the Universe starts its evolution with a fractal topological structure. This structure is described by a gas of wormholes. It is shown that the polarization of such a gas in external fields possesses a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 A. A. Kirillov , E. P. Savelova

We describe a new class of models of quantum space-time based on energetic causal sets and show that under natural conditions space-time emerges from them. These are causal sets whose causal links are labelled by energy and momentum and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-22 Marina Cortês , Lee Smolin

One of the most elusive challenges within the area of topological data analysis is understanding the distribution of persistence diagrams. Despite much effort, this is still largely an open problem. In this paper, we present a series of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-11 Omer Bobrowski , Primoz Skraba

Expansion of the universe is caused by the departure from the holographic equipartition. This principle, the law of emergence, first postulated in the context of Einstein's gravity has been extended successfully to more general gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-23 Krishna P. B. , Adithya P S , Titus K. Mathew

The laws of nature have come a long way since the time of Newton: quantum mechanics and relativity have given us good reasons to take seriously the possibility of laws which may be non-local, atemporal, `all-at-once,' retrocausal, or in…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Emily Adlam

When we look at the world around us, we see complex physical systems and emergent phenomena. Emergence occurs when a system is observed to have properties that its parts do not have on their own. These properties or behaviors emerge only…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-26 Nir Lahav