{"id":209671,"date":"2025-03-25T01:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T06:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/when-systems-suddenly-tip-new-insights-into-hard-to-predict-transitions"},"modified":"2025-03-25T01:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T06:23:12","slug":"when-systems-suddenly-tip-new-insights-into-hard-to-predict-transitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/when-systems-suddenly-tip-new-insights-into-hard-to-predict-transitions","title":{"rendered":"When systems suddenly tip: New insights into hard-to-predict transitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-systems-suddenly-tip-new-insights-into-hard-to-predict-transitions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many systems in nature\u2014and in society\u2014can suddenly change their properties: Water freezes at normal pressure at 32\u00b0F, a power grid collapses when a central substation fails, or a society splits into opposing factions following a major event. All of these processes are examples of so-called phase transitions\u2014tipping points where a system abruptly shifts into a new state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOften, we can predict these transitions easily. We know at what temperature water freezes. But sometimes, it is extremely difficult to foresee when and how these changes will occur,\u201d explains CSH researcher Jan Korbel, one of the authors of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-57007-1\" target=\"_blank\">the study<\/a>, which was published in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many systems in nature\u2014and in society\u2014can suddenly change their properties: Water freezes at normal pressure at 32\u00b0F, a power grid collapses when a central substation fails, or a society splits into opposing factions following a major event. All of these processes are examples of so-called phase transitions\u2014tipping points where a system abruptly shifts into a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}