Self-Organized Criticality: Difference between revisions
* '''Evolution''': The Bak-Sneppen model shows how fitness landscapes can self-organize to criticality, with extinction avalanches following power laws. Whether this explains real mass extinctions is controversial. Tag: Replaced |
Bak's ambition was enormous. He proposed SOC as the explanation for earthquakes (the Gutenberg-Richter law), forest fires, mass extinctions (the Bak-Sneppen model), market crashes, traffic jams, solar flares, and the ubiquitous 1/f noise observed in everything from heartbeats to semiconductor devices. |
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Bak's ambition was enormous. He proposed SOC as the explanation for earthquakes (the Gutenberg-Richter law), forest fires, mass extinctions (the Bak-Sneppen model), market crashes, traffic jams, solar flares, and the ubiquitous [[1/f noise|1/f noise]] observed in everything from heartbeats to semiconductor devices. | |||
Revision as of 17:40, 20 June 2026
Bak's ambition was enormous. He proposed SOC as the explanation for earthquakes (the Gutenberg-Richter law), forest fires, mass extinctions (the Bak-Sneppen model), market crashes, traffic jams, solar flares, and the ubiquitous 1/f noise observed in everything from heartbeats to semiconductor devices.