On the Origin of Scaling Laws - M. D. Eastwood (2026)
1 min read ยท 201 wordsOn the Origin of Scaling Laws - M. D. Eastwood (2026): a research paper from the ARC-Eden programme by Michael Darius Eastwood. The paper suite is registered at the Open Science Framework (DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB).
A mouse's heart beats 600 times per minute; an elephant's beats 28; a blue whale's beats 6. This paper traces the origin of scaling laws across biological, physical, and computational systems, arguing that the recursive amplification mechanism identified by the ARC Principle provides a u This companion post provides context. For the full text and figures, see the canonical paper page.
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