[FRIAM] Watch "The Most Important Idea in Physics: The Principle of Least Action - Ask a Spaceman!" on YouTube

[Nicholas Thompson]

BEGIN HARRUMPH!

Just so's you know, I did write:

*" And for some reason, the path taken by the object through space will
integrate this difference across the distance between any two points "*

But never doubt the capacity of some group of experts, when challenged to
make sense of themselves, to congeal around some picky point of language.
And yes, this is me, saying that.(};-)]

And why do we keep calling it by it/s cult name, rather than calling it
what it is?  The difference between the energy of a moving object conveyed
by its velocity and that conveyed by its position in a field. If you want
jargon,  why not just call it Ev-Ep.

And yet, nobody tackles the basic question.  Why on earth would E in the
v-Ep be something that every moving object in the universe tries to
accomplish.

END HARRUMPH!








On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 2:17 AM Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at simtable.com>
wrote:

> The Action is the integral of the Lagrangian along the whole path, not
> just a single instant.
>
> On Sun, Jul 2, 2023, 9:12 PM Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> So the difference is at a positive max when the ball hits the ground and
>> at a negative maximum when the ball reaches its highest altitude?  So how
>> am I to understand positive and negative?    vectors?
>>
>> Instantaneious Action is at a minimum when the two terms are equal?
>>
>> I have no intuitive sense of what is going on here.
>>
>> But thanks for trying, Frank.
>>
>> N
>>
>>
>>
>> N
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 12:27 PM Nicholas Thompson <
>> thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Frank,
>>>
>>> Thanks SO  MUCH for forwarding this to me.  To any other defrocked
>>> english majors on Friam, who have listened to these guys blather on about
>>> LaGrangians for all these years,  I highly, HIGHLY recommend the video.
>>> Pretty short, AND, you might possibly, conceivably understand Steve Guerin
>>> when you  get to the end.   Yeah.  Really.
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>> From: Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com>
>>> Date: Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 2:53 PM
>>> Subject: Fwd: Watch "The Most Important Idea in Physics: The Principle
>>> of Least Action - Ask a Spaceman!" on YouTube
>>> To: Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Frank C. Wimberly
>>> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
>>> Santa Fe, NM 87505
>>>
>>> 505 670-9918
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>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>> From: Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com>
>>> Date: Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 12:51 PM
>>> Subject: Watch "The Most Important Idea in Physics: The Principle of
>>> Least Action - Ask a Spaceman!" on YouTube
>>> To: Thompson, Nicholas <nickthompson at earthlink.net>, Barry MacKichan <
>>> barry.mackichan at mackichan.com>
>>>
>>>
>>> https://youtu.be/UuqpCBZoX3M
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Frank C. Wimberly
>>> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
>>> Santa Fe, NM 87505
>>>
>>> 505 670-9918
>>> Santa Fe, NM
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