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Free Lunch

History and Philosophy of Physics 2018-10-24 v1

Abstract

The Free Lunch Principle: Nature thrives on freebies. She chooses nothing, and no one helps Her. She must use canonical mathematical structures as there is no one to tell Her otherwise. With this I show where variational principles are superfluous and Noether's theorem is trivial.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1810.09618,
  title  = {Free Lunch},
  author = {George Svetlichny},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.09618},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

15 pages. This paper is based on a talk I gave at the Harvey Brown Festschrift in Oxford, July 2015

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