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That is an interesting point of view...the mechanism in
not essential, but energy is.
I agree there is value in being able to determine something
independent of the mechanism, since you can procede without
having the mechanism.
Thermodynamics is a wonderful example of that.
But it seems to me to be sterile in a way...I think we want
mechanism...not for the engineering reason, but because
physics is the study of causes...
and that requires more than accounting and limits on
possiblities..
which is what energy considerations give you...
it requires a detail belief about how things happen...
how it is that objects in the world relate to each other.