Many other responses are very good. > It's extremely unintuitive that classical systems should minimize anything like a time or an action. Perhaps, they minim

Many other responses are very good. > It's extremely unintuitive that classical systems should minimize anything like a time or an action. Perhaps, they minimize the action as the primary driver (cause), and time (effect) is generated as part of the solution, as a definition of evolution ... This margin is too small to contain my full explanation :)