Gravity may not be a genius, but it’s still an optimization problem, since the ball “wants” to minimize its potential energy. Of course, there are limits to such a reasoning: perhaps the ball will get stuck somewhere and never reach the lowest-energy state.
“Is gravity really such a genius?”
Gravity may not be a genius, but it’s still an optimization problem, since the ball “wants” to minimize its potential energy. Of course, there are limits to such a reasoning: perhaps the ball will get stuck somewhere and never reach the lowest-energy state.