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+<blockquote>Hamilton’s Equations show how the $q_i$'s and $p_i$'s undergo a ‘dance to the music of time’, a dance in which, as some $q_i$'s or $p_i$'s increase in value, others decrease in value, but always such as to keep the energy constant (in conservative systems), and always such as to keep the total action minimized, both instant by instant, and over the whole path between ‘surfaces-of-common-action’. This ‘dance’ is governed by one function, $H$, - that is to say, while $H$ is different for different systems (orbiting planets, a statistical ensemble, an electrical circuit, positrons orbiting an atomic antinucleus, a spinning top, juggling pins, a flowing river and so on) yet within any one system there is just one overaching function (there is no need for individual functions, $H_1$, $H_2$,...,$H_n)$.
+<cite>The Lazy Universe by Coopersmith</cite>
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