{"id":237229,"date":"2026-05-15T22:03:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/the-biggest-gap-in-science-complexity"},"modified":"2026-05-15T22:03:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:03:35","slug":"the-biggest-gap-in-science-complexity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/the-biggest-gap-in-science-complexity","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Gap in Science: Complexity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KPUZiWMNe-g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/ground.news\/sabine\">https:\/\/ground.news\/sabine<\/a> to see through media bias and know where your news is coming from. Take advantage of their Holiday Sale to get 40% OFF unlimited access this month only.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone loves to talk about complex problems and complex systems, but no one has any idea what it means. I think that understanding complexity is THE biggest gap in science today. What do we even mean by complexity? What do we know about it? And what\u2019s the problem with trying to explain it? That\u2019s what we\u2019ll talk about in this video.<\/p>\n<p>This video comes with a quiz which you can take here: <a href=\"https:\/\/quizwithit.com\/start_thequiz\/1702514595195x839772357362217700\">https:\/\/quizwithit.com\/start_thequiz\/1702514595195x839772357362217700<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd13 Check out our new quiz app \u279c <a href=\"http:\/\/quizwithit.com\/\">http:\/\/quizwithit.com\/<\/a><br \/> \ud83d\udc8c Support us on Donatebox \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/swtg\">https:\/\/donorbox.org\/swtg<\/a>.<br \/> \ud83d\udcdd Transcripts and written news on Substack \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/sciencewtg.substack.com\/\">https:\/\/sciencewtg.substack.com\/<\/a><br \/> \ud83d\udc49 Transcript with links to references on Patreon \u279c \/ sabine.<br \/> \ud83d\udce9 Free weekly science newsletter \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/sabinehossenfelder.com\/newsle\">https:\/\/sabinehossenfelder.com\/newsle<\/a>\u2026<br \/> \ud83d\udc42 Audio only podcast \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0MkNfXl\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0MkNfXl<\/a>\u2026<br \/> \ud83d\udd17 Join this channel to get access to perks \u279c<br \/> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sabinehossenfelder\">@sabinehossenfelder<\/a>.<br \/> \ud83d\uddbc\ufe0f On instagram \u279c \/ sciencewtg.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro.<br \/> 00:28 What is complexity?<br \/> 02:57 Measures for complexity.<br \/> 07:41 Properties of complex systems.<br \/> 13:33 Recent Approaches.<br \/> 16:20 Stay up-to-date with Ground News.<\/p>\n<p>#science #complexity<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/the-biggest-gap-in-science-complexity\">Continue reading \u201cThe Biggest Gap in Science: Complexity\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go to https:\/\/ground.news\/sabine to see through media bias and know where your news is coming from. Take advantage of their Holiday Sale to get 40% OFF unlimited access this month only. Everyone loves to talk about complex problems and complex systems, but no one has any idea what it means. I think that understanding complexity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237229","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}