¶ Environmental Events Hierarchy
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‘Mach numbers,’ said, ‘Physics is experience arranged in most economical order.’ To define the special case of science known as physics Mach added only the two words ‘most economical,’ to Eddington’s definition of generalized science. Mach made this qualification because physicists have found that nature always behaves most economically.
Experiments show that there are six positive and six negative degrees of fundamental transformation freedoms, which provide twelve alternate ways in which nature can behave most economically upon each and every energy event occurrence.
Eddington’s generalized science could look with equal validity for less economical orders. Thus was Boolean algebra discovered by deliberate employment of the absurd, i.e., nonexperience, which would mean the deliberately noneconomical. Reductio ad absurdum is often a powerful tool of scientific exploration.
