glass · material
Ask Prometheusa material that is transparent
Glass (noun) means: a material that is transparent. It emerges from material, structure, transparent: the material has an arrangement that enables transparency. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 9, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- The Corning Museum of Glass displays a 2,000-year-old Roman glass cup that still transmits light clearly. archaeology
- Fiber-optic cables in the MAREA transatlantic system use ultra-pure glass to transmit data with minimal signal loss. engineering
- The glass panes in the Louvre Pyramid remain transparent after decades of exposure to Parisian rain and pollution. architecture
Emergence
through: the material has an arrangement that enables transparency.
- transparency
- rigid, non-crystalline structure
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (81 steps)
- glassL9
- materialL5
- structureL2
- transparentL8
- materialL5
- visualL7
- informationL6
- marksL5
- surfaceL4
- setsL3
- patternL0
- othersL2
- spaceL0
- timeL0
- patternL0
- differenceL1
- boundaryL2
- differenceL1
- seeL6
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.