title: The self-organization of space and time.
abstract: Self-organization is clearly relevant to biology, chemistry, Earth science, economics and other sciences that have to deal with big and complicated issues. This paper shows that self-organization also has a great deal to do with fundamental physics, including quantum mechanics, relativity, quantum gravity and cosmology. This paper also aims to give some insight into what self-organization means and discusses questions such as the kinds of methods that can be used to understand self-organization and how self-organization relates to other modes of explanation such as reductionism.
authors.affiliation: Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 35 King Street North, Waterloo, ON N2J 2W9, Canada.
authors.forename: Lee
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Smolin
mesh_terms: D019419:Evolution, Planetary; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D011789:Quantum Theory; D013997:Time Factors