Cosmic Optimism: From the Principle of Maximum Diversity to Path Optimization
Before we turn to the Principle of Maximum Diversity, we review the development of the Principle of Least Action (or Effort), one of the mainstays of modern physics.
Before we turn to the Principle of Maximum Diversity, we review the development of the Principle of Least Action (or Effort), one of the mainstays of modern physics.
INTRODUCTION I believe it is possible that we may be at the same stage in discovering new laws of nature at the human level as the medievals were 600–700 years ago in their movement toward the discovery of the laws of nature at the simplest level, the laws of motion in mechanics. The early history…