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This principle predicts behavior based on energy, not forces, and on actions rather than points
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This principle assigns an "action" (usually denoted by "S")
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The Coase theorem in Economics is a similar insight, as is {{bibleref|Romans|8|28}}
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This principle governing motion applies universally, including subatomic particles, planets, and light.
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Stated another way, particles take the path of least resistance in their motion.
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This principle assigns an "action" to be the difference in kinetic and potential energy for all possible paths a particle could take, as integrated over time, and the one "chosen" by the particle is the path that minimizes the action.
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The brilliant and colorful Richard Feynmann devoted one of his famous lectures to this, as "entertainment" separate from his other lectures.
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Mathematical rigor was added to this concept in 1835 by the Irish mathematician and scientist William Rowan Hamilton.
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→See also
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The Parable of the Vineyard Workers is Biblical Scientific Foreknowledge by foreshadowing this powerful principle of modern physics.
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