and acknowledgments Self-Organized Criticality is a new way of viewing nature.
Self-Organized Criticality explains some ubiquitous patterns exist.
The aim of the Science of Self-Organized Criticality is to yield insight into the fundamental question of why Nature is complex, not simple, as the laws of physics imply.
The basic picture is one where Nature is perpetually out of balance, but organized in a poised state-the critical state-where anything can happen within well-defined statistical laws. and acknowledgments Self-Organized Criticality is a new way of viewing nature