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What do a gas pressure tank carried on a rocket, a seismic fault and a busy market have in common? Recent research suggests that they can all be described as self-organising systems which develop similar patterns over many scales, from the very small to the very large. And all three have the potential for extreme behaviour: rupture, quake or crash.
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Sornette, D. (2000). Transitions, Bifurcations and Precursors. In: Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences. Springer Series in Synergetics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04174-1_10
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