The Importance of Morality

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A Lagrangian is an expression from which you can derive many different equations of motion at once. In good old-fashioned Newtonian mechanics, classically, you would have to separately have equations of motion. "I don't think it's true that we require invariance of the Lagrangian rather than the equations of motion," he says.

Welcome to the August 2023 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number -- based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good -- and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!

Blog post with questions and transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/08/07/ama-august-2023/

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