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From Inference to Physics

Classical Physics 2016-09-08 v1 Statistical Mechanics Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability General Physics Quantum Physics

Abstract

Entropic dynamics, a program that aims at deriving the laws of physics from standard probabilistic and entropic rules for processing information, is developed further. We calculate the probability for an arbitrary path followed by a system as it moves from given initial to final states. For an appropriately chosen configuration space the path of maximum probability reproduces Newtonian dynamics.

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@article{arxiv.0808.1260,
  title  = {From Inference to Physics},
  author = {Ariel Caticha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.1260},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Presented at MaxEnt 2008, the 28th International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering (July 8-13, 2008, Boraceia Beach, Sao Paulo, Brazil)

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