world · place

the big set of places and things that are in space through time

World (noun) means: the big set of places and things that are in space through time. It emerges from matter, space, time, big: matter persists in space and changes through time, grouped into a large collection of distinct but related places and things. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 4, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

Examples

• Earth orbits the Sun amid the Milky Way galaxy, containing billions of species and landforms shaped over eons. astronomy
• The Internet spans continents through undersea cables and satellites, connecting billions of devices since the 1980s. computing
• The Great Barrier Reef formed over 20 million years, stretching 2,300 kilometers with thousands of coral ecosystems. geography

Emergence

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

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Provenance