Fifty years of 'More is different'

被引:25
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作者
Strogatz, Steven [1 ]
Walker, Sara [2 ,3 ]
Yeomans, Julia M. [4 ]
Tarnita, Corina [5 ]
Arcaute, Elsa [6 ]
De Domenico, Manlio [7 ]
Artime, Oriol [8 ]
Goh, Kwang-Il [9 ]
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[1] Cornell Univ, Dept Math, White Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
[2] Arizona State Univ, Sch Earth & Space Explorat, Tempe, AZ 85281 USA
[3] Santa Fe Inst, Santa Fe, NM 87501 USA
[4] Univ Oxford, Rudolf Peierls Ctr Theoret Phys, Dept Phys, Oxford, England
[5] Princeton Univ, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[6] UCL, Ctr Adv Spatial Anal, London, England
[7] Univ Padua, Dept Phys & Astron, CoMuNe Lab, Padua, Italy
[8] Fdn Bruno Kessler, CHuB Lab, Povo, Italy
[9] Korea Univ, Dept Phys, Seoul, South Korea
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10.1038/s42254-022-00483-x
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O59 [应用物理学];
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August 1972 saw the publication of Philip Anderson's essay 'More is different'. In it, he crystallized the idea of emergence, arguing that "at each level of complexity entirely new properties appear" - that is, although, for example, chemistry is subject to the laws of physics, we cannot infer the field of chemistry from our knowledge of physics. Fifty years on from this landmark publication, eight scientists describe the most interesting phenomena that emerge in their fields.
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