# world (place)

the big set of places and things that are in space through time

- Computed level: L4 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: everyday  ·  Arena: world

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [matter](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-matter.substance), [space](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-space.extent), [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension), [big](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-big.size), [sets](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-sets.grouped)

**Through:** matter persists in space and changes through time, grouped into a large collection of distinct but related places and things.

**Novel properties:**
- collective scale
- spatiotemporal unity
- emergent wholeness

## Examples
- Earth orbits the Sun amid the Milky Way galaxy, containing billions of species and landforms shaped over eons. *(astronomy)*
- The Internet spans continents through undersea cables and satellites, connecting billions of devices since the 1980s. *(computing)*
- The Great Barrier Reef formed over 20 million years, stretching 2,300 kilometers with thousands of coral ecosystems. *(geography)*

## Used by
- [asian](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-asian.geographic) (L7)
- [despair](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-despair.state) (L15)
- [geographic](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-geographic.spatial) (L7)
- [global](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-global.geographic) (L5)
- [international](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-international.social) (L7)
- [national](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-national.political) (L9)
- [sun](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-sun.celestial) (L21)

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-world.place*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-world.place.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*