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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

295 | Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality

4483.352 - 4504.183 Sean Carroll

So what you notice in that discussion is the jerk, the third derivative of position with respect to time, nowhere appears. It is not part of your fundamental description. You could figure it out. You could calculate it. Once someone gave you the positions and velocities and you used F equals ma to predict the future evolution, you could calculate what the jerk was.

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