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This is also a plot point in Ted Chiang's story "The Story Of Your Life" which was the basis of the movie "Arrival".
by bloat 9y ago
This is also a plot point in Ted Chiang's story "The Story Of Your Life" which was the basis of the movie "Arrival".
- mudita 9y agoThrough this short story I also learned that Fermat's principle is just one example of a variational principle. I'm not an expert, but if I understand it correctly, many physical laws can be restated as variational principles. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_variational_principles_in_physics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_variational_princip...