Universal Cosmic Loss Function (UCLF): A Brief History of Optimality

Why does light take the shortest path? Why do planets follow ellipses? Why does the universe have exactly three generations of matter - not two, not four? Why is the electron mass what it is, rather than something else? And why, in moments of the deepest stillness, does the separate self dissolve? These questions were asked, in different languages, by Greek geometers, Islamic algebraists, European natural philosophers, quantum physicists, and contemplative sages. They were asking the same question. They just did not know it. This book tells the story of that single question - from the first self-replicating molecule to Emmy Noether, from Richard Feynman to Ramana Maharshi - and reveals the mathematical answer that connects them all: the Universal Cosmic Loss Function. Part narrative history of science, part rigorous physics, part contemplative philosophy, UCLF: A Brief History of Optimality is the fifth and most accessible book in Dr. Gupta's Informational Nature of Being series. No prior science background is required. Only curiosity.

Pages: 156, Paperback, Independently published