fragility · easily-broken
Ask PrometheusA state where a small change in space or energy causes a thing to stop persisting.
Fragility (adjective) means: A state where a small change in space or energy causes a thing to stop persisting. It emerges from space, energy, persist, change: When small changes in space or energy disrupt a thing's ability to persist, fragility emerges. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 16, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- A house of cards collapses when a single card is nudged. everyday
- The August 2003 Northeast blackout began when sagging power lines in Ohio touched overgrown trees, and the failure cascaded to cut electricity to tens of millions of people. engineering
Emergence
through: When small changes in space or energy disrupt a thing's ability to persist, fragility emerges.
- sensitivity to small disturbances
- sudden loss of persistence
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (9 steps)
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| contrasts-with | robustness.resilient | Fragility is the opposite of resilience. |