Sublime

This is a “rich get richer” sort of model in which the more a word is used in the past, the more likely it is that it will attract more use in the future.

Richard Montgomery of UCSC and Alain Chenciner of Université Paris Diderot discovered another stable, periodic solution to the three-body problem.

Le chaos, l’éternel féminin, est également la force dévastatrice de la sélection sexuelle. Les femmes sont sélectives, contrairement aux femelles chimpanzés, leur pendant animal le plus proche39. La plupart des hommes ne correspondent pas à leurs critères idéaux. C’est pour cette raison que sur les sites de rencontres, 85 % des hommes ne sont pas,

Thus the entire universe was without form for about 380 thousand years. After that, the radiation cooled down enough to where the fundamental forces of gravity and electromagnetism could pull the subatomic particles together to form the first atoms.

Instead of assuming agents were perfectly rational, we allowed there were limits to how smart they were. Instead of assuming the economy displayed diminishing returns (negative feedbacks), we allowed that it might also contain increasing returns (positive feedbacks). Instead of assuming the economy was a mechanistic system operating at equilibrium,

Inflation’s pioneers envisaged that, in less than a split second, the observable universe would have swollen by a stupendous factor of 1030. That corresponds roughly to the difference in scale between an atom and the Milky Way.

conservation of information. This principle was implicit in Newton’s laws of classical mechanics, but it wasn’t brought out into the limelight until the work of French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace around 1814.

The economy is not a closed static equilibrium system; it is a system perpetually open to novel behavior, and complexity economics forces us to keep this in mind.