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arxiv: gr-qc/0109068 · v1 · submitted 2001-09-19 · 🌀 gr-qc · cond-mat.stat-mech· physics.class-ph

Entropic Dynamics

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keywords dynamicsinferencelawsprincipleentropicphysicswhatanswer
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I explore the possibility that the laws of physics might be laws of inference rather than laws of nature. What sort of dynamics can one derive from well-established rules of inference? Specifically, I ask: Given relevant information codified in the initial and the final states, what trajectory is the system expected to follow? The answer follows from a principle of inference, the principle of maximum entropy, and not from a principle of physics. The entropic dynamics derived this way exhibits some remarkable formal similarities with other generally covariant theories such as general relativity.

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