John Carlos Baez on Nostr: nprofile1q…gyhyk nprofile1q…rhmdu - yes, you can't really describe a particle ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq8ytv7sacr8rfz68ek35vdg38a2dp0mfgulq2a6rkr9gcsfetx9js9gyhyk (nprofile…yhyk) nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqtwpqyrg7jzuy6x4s2rcyz4g8xqv5klazjmcqatu63y5qpctkh54sarhmdu (nprofile…hmdu) - yes, you can't really describe a particle falling through a viscous fluid using a time-independent Lagrangian unless do something like model the fluid has having lots of tiny parts that get affected as the particle falls through the fluid.