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In physics, Lagrangian mechanics is a formulation of classical mechanics founded on the stationary-action principle (also known as the principle of least action). It was introduced by the Italian-French mathematician and astronomer Joseph-Louis Lagrange in his presentation to the Turin Academy of Science in 1760[1] culminating in his 1788 grand opus, Mcanique analytique.[2]

In 1948, Feynman discovered the path integral formulation extending the principle of least action to quantum mechanics for electrons and photons. In this formulation, particles travel every possible path between the initial and final states; the probability of a specific final state is obtained by summing over all possible trajectories leading to it. In the classical regime, the path integral formulation cleanly reproduces Hamilton's principle, and Fermat's principle in optics.

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In Lagrangian mechanics, the generalized coordinates form a discrete set of variables that define the configuration of a system. In classical field theory, the physical system is not a set of discrete particles, but rather a continuous field tag_hash_110(r, t) defined over a region of 3D space. Associated with the field is a Lagrangian density

Across the arts, the story of humans in recent vintage is that people became ever more refined in their craftsmanship until the culture became exhausted. Then photography and motion pictures emerged as a crisis. You never let a crisis go to waste. So we get modernism, broadly speaking, drifting from craft to more abstraction, more subjective vision and voice, more experimentation and surreality. As it happens, quantum physics also comes along to upend classical mechanics. A layman might say that in classical terms, quantum mechanics seems to be metaphysical. The glass we see through is ever darker. Stuff gets weird. But modernity is an arms race, just as refinement was before it. It is not enough to get ever more impressionistic, the inevitable end point is to question the very notion of representation itself. What if we thought as babies do, or our ancestors did 60,000 years ago? Walk around your neighborhood and try to explain to your toddler what the difference is between art and detritus. It\u2019s hard! Place a urinal on a pedestal, and don\u2019t smirk. It\u2019s acculturation all the way down. Free your eyes. But on the other hand, once you\u2019ve put the urinal on the pedestal, there\u2019s a little less oomph when you tape the banana up on the wall decades later. There may be limits to our human range. Even in the arts, we may be computationally bounded observers. So the abstract impressionists were right, in the way that punk rock was right. The point is important, but not inexhaustible. The rebellion against the decadence of refinement becomes its own form of decadence. Modernity was exhausted in decades; post-modernity in years; whatever came next never awoke at all. The reaction to this predicament is nostalgia. If you played the music of today, would it surprise the listeners from twenty or twenty-five years ago? I don\u2019t think so. Nostalgia, like opioids, is addictive and recursive. It is decadence recycled. You might try to get around this by shock, but in the spirit of \u201990s nostalgia, I think it\u2019s fair to say that \u201Cnothing\u2019s shocking.\u201D There can be no greater disaster for contemporary art than if we enter the galleries and exit unrattled and bored. The anxiety of influence is a low-humming anxiety; it can be paralyzing but also an animating force. Cultural exhaustion is a great depression; it is debilitating in full. In our new century, we find ourselves facing exhaustion piled on exhaustion piled on exhaustion. John Currin began his career making abstract paintings but then sensed the coming exhaustion, understood that he was only doodling in the margins of a chapter that was coming to a close. This was an early and unfashionable realization, around thirty years ago. So he did not try to turn the screw of modernity ever tighter. And though he studied the techniques of the European masters, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s right to say that he looked backwards (his works seem decidedly more modern now\u2014more now\u2014than the work of other major contemporaries of that time). His work was of the moment, yes. But it was inexhaustible. Put aside the titillation factor of his subject matter, that can only explain so much. How did he solve this puzzle? The old tricks of human ingenuity, that\u2019s all: His solution was craft. 2351a5e196