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Published April 11, 1991 | public
Journal Article

'Life' not critical?

Abstract

SIR - Bak et al. have presented evidence that the cellular automaton, the 'game of life', develops into a self-organized critical state, characterized by a D(T)^(-1.6) distribution of times T required for the lattice to return to equilibrium following a random single-site perturbation. This power law implies an infinite expected equilibration time .

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© 1991 Nature Publishing Group.

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