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