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A general information-theoretic framework for deriving physical laws is presented and a principle of informational physics is enunciated within its context. Existing approaches intended to derive physical laws from information-theoretic…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-02-23 Nisheeth Srivastava

Starting from the guiding principles of spacetime locality and operationalism, a general framework for a probabilistic description of nature is proposed. Crucially, no notion of time or metric is assumed, neither any specific physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-17 Robert Oeckl

We briefly review the various contexts within which one might address the issue of ``why'' the dimensionless constants of Nature have the particular values that they are observed to have. Both the general historical trend, in physics, of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 Thibault Damour

The Variant-rule derives from the Precursor-rule by interchanging two classes of its 28 isotropic mappings. Although this small mutation conserves most glider types and stable blocks, glider-gun engines are changed, as are most large scale…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2020-08-28 José Manuel Gómez Soto , Andrew Wuensche

All physical process are subject to some laws which determine with math accurately its time-space evolution. These laws are described, in the last analysis for the principle of causality. The physical space can be homogeneous or…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Enrique Ordaz Romay

I wish to expound a novel perspective of probing universal character of gravity. To begin with, inclusion of zero mass particle in mechanics leads to special relativity while its interaction with a universal force shared by all particles…

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In this note, we discuss the significance of the general principle of relativity for a physical theory that abandons the newtonian concept of force and, hence, uses an entirely different conception for the ``cause'' behind motions of…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sanjay M Wagh

In this short communication, we present a generalization of the Ekeland variational principle. The main result is established through standard tools of functional analysis and calculus of variations. The novelty here is a result involving…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Fabio Silva Botelho

This note presents an attempt to provide a conceptual framework for variational formulations of classical physics. Variational principles of physics have all a common source in the {\it principle of virtual work} well known in statics of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wlodzimierz M. Tulczyjew

Understanding the laws that govern a phenomenon is the core of scientific progress. This is especially true when the goal is to model the interplay between different aspects in a causal fashion. Indeed, causal inference itself is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Alessio Zanga , Elif Ozkirimli , Fabio Stella

We seek to establish qualitative convergence results to a general class of evolution PDEs described by gradient flows in optimal transportation distances. These qualitative convergence results come from dynamical systems under the general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-02 J. A. Carrillo , R. S. Gvalani , J. Wu

A new formulation of quantum mechanics is proposed based on a new principle that can be considered a generalization of the Born rule. The principle is composed of a mathematical expression and an associated interpretation, and establishes a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-31 Bruno Galvan

In a series of essays, beginning with this article, we are going to develop a new formulation of micro-phenomena based on the principles of reality and causality. The new theory provides with us a new depiction of micro-phenomena assuming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-21 Afshin Shafiee

Although conventional logical systems based on logical calculi have been successfully used in mathematics and beyond, they have definite limitations that restrict their application in many cases. For instance, the principal condition for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-04-11 Mark Burgin , Kees , de Vey Mestdagh

In this paper I propose a new principle in physics: the principle of "finiteness". It stems from the definition of physics as a science that deals (among other things) with measurable dimensional physical quantities. Since measurement…

General Physics · Physics 2010-06-21 Abraham Sternlieb

In many relevant cases -- e.g., in hamiltonian dynamics -- a given vector field can be characterized by means of a variational principle based on a one-form. We discuss how a vector field on a manifold can also be characterized in a similar…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 G. Gaeta , P. Morando

The theory of regularity is a philosophical perspective in which laws of nature are just descriptions, that is to say, laws of nature do not govern the world. Moreover, according to the theory of regularity, the number of laws of nature…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Juliano C. S. Neves

A method for designing variational principles for the dynamics of a possibly dissipative and non-conservatively forced chain of particles is demonstrated. Some qualitative features of the formulation are discussed.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-04-05 Amit Acharya , Ambar N. Sengupta

We discuss recent work for causal inference and predictive robustness in a unifying way. The key idea relies on a notion of probabilistic invariance or stability: it opens up new insights for formulating causality as a certain risk…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-12-21 Peter Bühlmann

The time dependent quantum variational principle is emerging as an important means of studying quantum dynamics, particularly in early universe scenarios. To date all investigations have worked within a Gaussian framework. Here we present…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-06 Gareth J. Cheetham , E. J. Copeland