self-propagating
Adjective
Meaning
Propagating by one's self or by itself.
Source: Webster's dictionaryExamples
In the short term, natural selection favors self-propagating systems that pursue their own short-term advantage with little or no regard for long-term consequences.
Advanced mages can craft self-propagating memes or curse entire family lines with blights.
A nuclear chain reaction occurs when one single nuclear reaction causes an average of one or more subsequent nuclear reactions, thus leading to the possibility of a self-propagating series of these reactions.
In both types of processes, the corresponding reactive intermediates (radicals, ions) are permanently regenerated, and thus they proceed by a self-propagating chain mechanism.
Because I know I give it my utmost attention and perhaps it is one of those self-propagating things like whirlwinds of leaves.
Maxwell discovered that self-propagating electromagnetic waves would travel through space at a constant speed, which happened to be equal to the previously measured speed of light.