Per Bak's sandpile paper was published in a top-tier journal because it demonstrated something previously thought impossible: a simple universal mechanism for generating power laws across diverse systems
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“this little paper with a sandpile was published in the world's top journal because it did something that people just didn't really think was possible.”
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