Major Material Complexity Level 3: A Molecular System: Planetary Systems
Context: Level 2: Solar Systems
Level 3 Chaotic Layer (weather subsystem: Sol): Weather Systems
Chaotic Center: Star
Microsystems: Atomic Nuclei (replicating atoms)
Macrosystems: Gas Giants
 
Major Microsystems: Gases (Atomic Ions and Molecular Ions)
Level 3 Order Layer(geologic subsystem Vulcan): Geologic Systems
Order Region: Interplanetary Space
Macrosystems: Solid Planets, Comets, Asteriods
Example: Mercury
Major Microsystems: Solids (Atoms & Simple Molecules)
 
Macrosystems: Three Phase Planets
Example: Earth
Microsystems: liquids
Kauffman, Stuart, The Origins of Order, Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-19-507951-5
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