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Self-Organization Of Cosmic Elements During Stellar Evolution, Travis Butler

Honors Theses

An open question in science is how complex systems self-organize to produce emergent structures and properties. One aspect is to find the dependence of structure and organization on the size of a system. It has long been known that there is a quality-quantity relationship in natural systems, which is to say that the properties of system depend on its size. More recently, this has been termed the Size-Complexity Rule. In this Thesis paper, we study the average rates of nucleosynthesis and action efficiency of stars with varying initial metallicities and explosion energies from simulations (Nomoto, Tominaga, Umeda, Kobayashi, & Maeda, …