Bibliographic record
Abstract
The principle of least action in its original form a la Maupertuis can be understood as the universal quest to consume free energy in the least time. The ensuing dispersion of energy is a nondeterministic process when there are various ways to consume free energy because the flows of energy and their driving forces cannot be separated so as to track the motions by way of integration. Despite this resulting intractability, the natural processes are not random, but the flows of energy themselves will naturally select the least-action paths from available variations. In this way, high-density closed actions will process step by step to lower and lower densities by opening up and expelling one or multiple elements of the absolutely least action, scaling to Planck’s constant. Ultimately the spontaneous symmetry-breaking process will terminate, when the most elementary action in a closed form opens up and transforms to the action of the lowest symmetry, the photon. Consequently, when all entities in nature are described as actions, there is no fundamental difference between particles and their associated forces. The holistic worldview provided by the principle of least action in its mathematical form allows us to understand why nature displays rules and regularities but is nevertheless unpredictable. 2012 Physics Essays Publication. [DOI: 10.4006/0836-1398-25.2.233] Resume: Le principe de moindre action dans sa forme originale, chez Maupertuis, peut etre compris comme la quete universelle de la consommation de l’energie libre dans le temps le plus bref. La dispersion d’energie qui s’ensuit est non-deterministe quand il y a des chemins varies pour la consommation de l’energie libre parce qu’alors les flux d’energie et les forces motrices ne peuvent pas etre separees pour tracer les mouvements en utilisant l’integration. En depit de cette indocilite resultant, les flux d’energie eux-memes selectionneront les chemins de moindre action au milieu des possibilites disponibles. De cette facon, les actions des particules de haute densite progresseront pas a pas vers des densites de plus en plus faibles en s’ouvrant et en expulsant un ou plusieurs elements de la moindre action absolue, qui est etalonnee sur la constante de Planck. Ultimement ce processus de rupture spontanee de la symetrie se terminera lorsque l’action la plus elementaire dans une forme de particule s’ouvre et se transforme dans l’action de symetrie la plus faible, le photon. Consequemment, quand toutes les entite dans la nature sont decrites comme actions, il n’y a pas de difference fondamentale entre particules et leurs forces associees. La vision du monde holistique fournie par le principe de moindre action dans sa forme mathematique nous permet de comprendre pourquoi la nature montre des regles et des regularites mais reste cependant imprevisible.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.013 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.119 | 0.018 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".