The Frieden book costs GBP 45.00 so I might wait for your review, Bruno.
The synopsis in Amazon.co.uk is...
This text defines and develops a unifying principle of physics, that of
"extreme physical information". The information in question known as Fisher
information. Both statistical and physical properties of Fisher information
are developed. This information is shown to be a physical measure of
disorder, sharing with entropy the property of monotonic change with time.
The information concept is applied to derive most known physics, from
statistical mechanics and thermodynamics to quantum mechanics, the Einstein
field equations, and quantum gravity.
...so Frieden clearly devotes much of the book to meeting your skeptical
challenge.
James
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> Subject: Re: Roy Frieden
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> >In a message dated 99-03-22 06:00:19 EST, james.higgo.domain.name.hidden
> >writes:
> >
> ><< Has anyone read that piece in New Scientist recently about all
> physical
> >laws
> > being derived from the lagrangian representing the gap between our
> knowledge
> > of the system and 'what nature knows'? It seems pertinent.
> > http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990130/iisthelaw.html
> > >>
> >
> >I found the article fascinating and I agree with James, It is definitely
> >pertinent to our discussion. The author seems to be moving toward a new
> >science perhaps a thermodynamics of information?
> >
> >George
>
>
> I agree with James and Georges. It is indeed pertinent for the discussion.
> Frieden approach seems almost to "beautiful" to be true.
> I order Roy Frieden's book "Physics from Fisher Information", 1999,
> Cambridge
> University Press. I am impatient (and a little skeptical) to see how he
> "derives" Schroedinger equation and Wheeler-deWitt equation.
>
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> Bruno
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