Our considerations on the system theory of stability suggest the hypothesis that the basal elementary particles can be seen as autonomous agents. This means that they have different movement options at any given moment, evaluate these options according to an evaluation standard and then decide on the “optimal” variant.
This may sound a bit esoteric at first. But it can be reconciled with established physical knowledge: First, the behavior of all submicroscopic objects is indeterministic, i.e., they have different movement options at any given time that are not clearly predetermined. Second, theoretical physicists are familiar with the principle of minimal action. In the classical interpretation, this principle states that a particle will always take the path where the effect is minimal. In the quantum interpretation, a particle takes any path, each path being weighted by its respective effect and integrated over all possible paths.
Effect is a physical quantity with the dimension "energy * time" or "momentum * distance". The term "effort" would probably be more intuitive, because ultimately the principle of minimum effect means nothing more than that the path of least effort is always chosen in nature. The corresponding laws of motion, i.e. the mathematically formulated rules for temporal change, can be derived from the principle of least action in all areas of physics:
- Law of refraction in optics
- Lorentz equations of electrodynamics
- Newton's equations of motion in classical mechanics
- Schrödinger equation of quantum mechanics
- Equations of motion of the general theory of relativity
However, our current knowledge of physics does not provide any indication as to why the principle of minimum effect is universally valid. A further unification of our physical knowledge should enable us to find an explanation for this most remarkable circumstance. The desired agent theory for the fundamental particles would therefore have to describe which movement options the fundamental particles have, how they obtain the necessary information to evaluate the movement options, and why they weight the options with the respective effect.
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