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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Regarding these concepts I remember that L. de
Broglie started a new thread.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>According to his view there is a link
between "entropy" and "action". According</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>to a famous paper (not well known these
days) by R. Thom [circa 1960, in a</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>collection of papers published/edited by Saunders
MacLane, on differential geometry </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>and classical mechanics] "entropy" and "action" are
the same thing (?).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The Swiss P.B. Scheurer wrote similar things, I
remember I read something on Helvetica</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Phys. Acta, long long time ago .... but I do
not have these papers at hand now.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>-serafino</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>