I am working on some very smart things to say here. Really. Meanwhile, there's 
Nature is a lazy bum that it will always choose the path of least action. If we roll a ball on the floor, for instance, the ball will move in a path that requires the least action (energy multiplied by time) to get from the start to the end point. While we all accept Newtonian laws as intuitive we tend to look at Quantum Mechanics as weird and non-intuitive. Well, we are wrong. Why Quantum Mechanics Is Not So Weird after All sez Paul Qunicey. [via]
Now, once you've conquered the idea that Nature is lazy, you can move on to String Theory and its competitors that aim to show that Nature is even more loopy (or stringy as the case may be).
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Posted by: somnilista, FCD | September 14, 2006 12:03 PM