From: IN GOD WE TRVST on
Eddington writes:

"...we may identify action provisionally with minus the logarithm of
the statistical probability of the state of the world which exists.

The suggestion is particularly attractive because the Principle of
Least Action now becomes the Principle of Greatest Probability."

Space, Time, and Gravitation at 178.


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