Talk:Hamiltonian constraint

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It is incomprensible. It is with no doubt copied from somewhere and is excerpted from somewhere as clear from the sentence "So, using Occam's razor again (we used it the first time ...) ...".

It is obviously copied from a (may be copiright or may be free copirighted) article, book or note of an advanced course of theoric physics. I have a degree in Physics but I can not understand it, in the sense that I could neither read it. It is only an excerpt. It does not explain the argument. It is ruther far from the article wanted in wikipedia. For me, as well maybe copyvio it is a candidate to WP:VFD AnyFile 12:04, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Copyedit

I have cleaned up a bit. Anyone who fancies the challenge of further improving should probably at least read Hamiltonian mechanics first, unless they know this stuff already. Rich Farmbrough 21:56, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] June 28 Editing

I basically removed the text and replaced it with a short description of the Hamiltonian constraint, which is a technical term for a specific operator in general relativity, in particular in quantum gravity. The older article appeared to mix a some notes on it, with nonsense, with parts of a general discussion of constrained hamiltonians, which are different. Salsb 29 June 2005 15:33 (UTC)