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From our current level of investigation of the use of majority rule voting in bottom-up hierarchical structures, we are now in a position to touch on one of the most fascinating features of the “life” of inert matter; the phase transition of a given system from one global organization into another. An example in matter would be going from a liquid to a gas or from a conductor to a super-conductor. The mechanisms at work in such a metamorphosis are universal, which means that they obey the same restricted set of laws whatever the physical nature of the matter undergoing the phase transition. The most salient signature of a phase transition is the divergence of the so-called correlation length.
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Galam, S. (2012). Touching on a Fundamental Aspect of Nature, Both Physical and Human. In: Sociophysics. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2032-3_15
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