"[W]e stress... the wide range of validity exhibited by s in theoretical physics. ...[I]t has ...been demonstrated how they can be employed to derive equations of optics, dynamics of particles and rigid bodies, and electromagnetism. In addition, physicists have succeeded in formulating the laws of elasticity and hydrodynamics as variational principles, and even Einstein's law of gravitation was included in this category by Hilbert, who found a scaler function... for which \partial\int\mathfrak{h}\,dx_0\,dx_1\,dx_2\,dx_3=0 is equivalent to Einstein's law. This function has been called the "curvature," an identification which induced Whittaker to describe Hilbert's principle in the laconic words, "gravitation simply represents a continual effort of the universe to straighten itself out.""
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Wolfgang Yourgrau, Variational Principles in Dynamics and Quantum Theory (1979) pp. 92-93.
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