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I was too head-coldy to give<br \/>\nthe guy hell for puffing up the tax prep bill.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Once home, about hot tea, I learned this: Peppermint will re-steep for a<br \/>\nsecond good cup.&nbsp; Raspberry zinger will not.<\/p>\n<p>Renormalization is a term credited to physics (perhaps other fields, too).&nbsp; According to Barabasi, it comes<br \/>\nfrom the work of Cornell professor and 1982 Nobel prize winner Kenneth Wilson<br \/>\nwho assigned the term to the event following a physical phase transition.&nbsp;<br \/>\nRenormalization (granted, read second hand) accounts for the paradoxical flux<br \/>\nand structural stiffening of real networks&#8211;the shift from chaos to complexity, from<br \/>\ndisorder to system:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By giving a rigorous mathematical foundation to scale invariance,<br \/>\n  [Wilson&#8217;s]<br \/>\n  theory spat out power laws each time he approached the critical point, the<br \/>\n  place where disorder makes room for order.&nbsp; Wilson&#8217;s renormalization<br \/>\n  group not only called for power laws but for the first time could predict the<br \/>\n  values of two missing critical exponents as well. (77)<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We had finally learned that when giving birth to order, complex systems<br \/>\n  divest themselves of their unique features and display a universal behavior<br \/>\n  that has similar characteristics in a wide range of systems. (78)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite possible, even likely, that I&#8217;m misunderstanding or misapplying<br \/>\nthis concept.&nbsp; Even so, I find something catchy&#8211;sticky&#8211;in renormalization, and I<br \/>\nwanted to put it on the table, set it out there for other possible<br \/>\nconnections (even if only my own, later on).&nbsp; Barabasi goes on to explain<br \/>\ntwo basic features of scale-free networks that complicate earlier theories that<br \/>\ntreat such structures as static and random.&nbsp; To detail the importance of<br \/>\nhubs, he names the characteristics of <i>growth<\/i> and <i>preferential attachment<\/i>.&nbsp;<br \/>\nAnd although his notion of growth seems teleologically biased, allowing for<br \/>\ndecay or detritus only briefly in a discussion of aging, I continue to be struck by the application of<br \/>\nconcepts from physics to social patterns.&nbsp; At least for tonight (no telling<br \/>\nhow much credit to my head cold or tax fiasco), renormalization seems an<br \/>\nespecially interesting idea.<\/p>\n<p>[Added: Renormalization is the same as order-disorder-order in story<br \/>\nstructures?]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>I&#8217;m still grogging through a hyper-invasive head cold.&nbsp; &#8216;Snot easy to read and write through the sinus pressure, drainage and trips to the kettle for another hot tea.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve gotten on with reading Robert Connors, Hayden White and a couple of chapters from Barabasi&#8217;s Linked for tomorrow in addition to a project overview for comp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[169],"tags":[333,351],"class_list":["post-6247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networkacy","tag-barabasi","tag-renormalization"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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