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

AMA | October 2024

2441.101 - 2461.449 Sean Carroll

The principle of least action says there is a quantity called the action that I can assign to any possible trajectory the system could imaginably have, and the one it physically does have in classical mechanics is the one where that action is the lowest, okay? But quantum measurement doesn't fit into that paradigm. Quantum measurement doesn't have a principle of least action.

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