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Fool’s Paradise: The Wedding Dance of Physics and Control

1993; ASM International; Volume: 115; Issue: 2B Linguagem: Inglês

10.1115/1.2899063

1528-9028

H. M. Paynter,

Cognitive Science and Education Research

This paper discusses the subtle interplay between physics and control guided by the metaphor of a marriage, with its wedding dance, shivaree and consummation. Physics is constrained by conservation, control, by causality. The revolutionary concept of a signal is the shotgun that forced the wedding.