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Review: The Variational Principles of Mechanics (thepsmiths.com)
2 points by telotortium 9 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



> Perhaps the universe is not a computer, perhaps its origin and its conclusion are fixed, and it speeds along a trajectory between the two that, when all possible histories are considered, is the only one it could have...

Perhaps; note that Einstein expended a great deal of effort attempting to patch up this world view in the face of QM, but kept running up against the experimental results that alea iacta est.

(Compare: Aquinas, Leibniz, Spinoza, https://xkcd.com/2904/ )




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