> Nobel Prize for showing that particles are always most likely to take the most efficient path I only have a BS in physics, so do please correct me, but the p

> Nobel Prize for showing that particles are always most likely to take the most efficient path I only have a BS in physics, so do please correct me, but the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics helps predict particle behavior but doesn't say anything is most likely to happen all the time. Indeed, it requires considering how often very absurd things happen. > it is easier to work with a simpler theory, so scientists prefer it out of self-interest Thermodynamics is definitely simpler than any phylogenetic analysis trying to peer backward through a graph with many, many cycles in it. But thermodynamics requires accepting the possibilities of just how many times some very unlikely event might happen.