sudden · temporal
Ask PrometheusA change in a parameter that is shorter than the sampling interval of the observer's model, and thus unmodelled.
Sudden (adjective) means: A change in a parameter that is shorter than the sampling interval of the observer's model, and thus unmodelled. It emerges from parameter, window, model, change: A change in a condition occurs so quickly relative to the observer's sampling interval that it falls outside the model's temporal resolution, making the shift imperceptible and unrepresented. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 12, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- The 2003 Northeast Blackout spread across 247,000 square miles in under 5 minutes, faster than grid operators' monitoring systems could register. engineering
- Alpha particles from polonium-210 decay in 0.0001 nanoseconds, undetectable by standard radiation counters sampling every microsecond. physics
- The flash crash of the Dow Jones on May 6, 2010, dropped 998 points in 20 minutes, unseen by daily market models. economics
Emergence
through: A change in a condition occurs so quickly relative to the observer's sampling interval that it falls outside the model's temporal resolution, making the shift imperceptible and unrepresented.
- unmodelled transition
- temporal invisibility
- sampling gap
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (216 steps)
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.