{"id":364615,"date":"2017-02-15T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=7fe8391072cbe801ea2d2021773941ae"},"modified":"2017-02-15T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T00:00:00","slug":"complex-systems-physics-beyond-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=364615","title":{"rendered":"Complex systems: physics beyond physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Complex systems are characterised by specific time-dependent interactions among their many<br \/>\nconstituents. As a consequence they often manifest rich, non-trivial and unexpected behaviour.<br \/>\nExamples arise both in the physical and non-physical worlds. The study of complex systems forms a<br \/>\nnew interdisciplinary research area that cuts across physics, biology, ecology, economics,<br \/>\nsociology, and the humanities. In this paper we review the essence of complex systems from a<br \/>\nphysicists&#8217; point of view, and try to clarify what makes them conceptually different from systems<br \/>\nthat are traditionally studied in physics. Our goal is to demonstrate how the dynamics of such<br \/>\nsystems may be conceptualised in quantitative and predictive terms by extending notions from<br \/>\nstatistical physics and how they can often be captured in a framework of co-evolving multiplex<br \/>\nnetwork structures. We mention three areas of complex-systems science that are currently studied<br \/>\nextensively, the science of cities, dynamics of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complex systems are characterised by specific time-dependent interactions among their many<br \/>\nconstituents. As a consequence they often manifest rich, non-trivial and unexpected behaviour.<br \/>\nExamples arise both in the physical and non-physical worlds. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-364615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}