Categoria: GRFoundations
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1.3 Principle of Least Effort
“Nature does nothing uselessly” – Aristotle, Politics The Principle of Least Effort, or Principle of Least Action, might be one of the simplest, yet most fundamental principles that rule our universe. From our earliest observations on nature as a whole, as noted by Aristotle, with his observations on Telos and Eudaimonia, to later formalisations with…
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1.2 Global vs Local Frames
“In the case of all things which have several parts and in which the totality is not, as it were, a mere heap, but the whole is something besides the parts…” — Aristotle, Metaphysics Horses are not very brave animals. Easily spooked and distracted, they wear special masks called blinkers—two small cups that narrow their…
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1.1 Systems
“Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain it.” — Psalm 139:6 To describe nature is tantamount to impossible. The world is too vast to take in all at once, so we focus on a portion of it—a system. It might be a single falling apple, a set of species…
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