The Emergence Machine

Sunset

physical · Meteorology · Level 8 · E0

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Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.

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Emergence definition

Sunset is the daily phenomenon when the sun disappears below the horizon in the western sky as Earth rotates, marking the transition from day to night with colors in the sky, driven by the transformation of state or condition from one to another, driven by energy and occurring over a sequence of events.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “sunset” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “sunset”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin word
sunset
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL8L7L6L5L2L1L0SunsetSunLightPerception… intermediate l…FormLifeStructureChangeMatterWaveEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

used byprerequisitesNight TimeL9SunsetL8ChangeL1SunL7E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Change L1 (requires)
    sunset requires understanding change as a foundational concept
  • Sun L7 (requires)
    Sunset is the daily phenomenon when the sun disappears below the horizon in the western sky as Earth rotates, marking the transition from day to night with colors in the sky.

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