On 5/29/2025 6:22 AM, John Clark wrote:
I know that your next question will be why is nature inherently
lazy?My short answer is I don't know. My slightly longer answer is I
suspect that question simply has no answer because it is a brute fact.
After all, an iterated sequence of "why" questions either goes on
forever or terminates with a brute fact. You may not like either
eventuality but one of them must be true.
One thing that leads to confusion (and endless questions from AG) in
popular discourse is that Lagrangians and least-action and differential
equations and Hamiltonians, etc, are /maps/ not the territory and,
depending on which map you're using, you find the boundary "brute fact"
to have different expression.
Brent
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