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Noether's Theorem and The Symmetries of Reality

S2018 · E18 · 16 May 2018 · 14 min

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Conservation laws are among the most important tools in physics. They feel as fundamental as you can get. And yet they’re wrong - or at least they’re only right sometimes. These laws are consequences of a much deeper, more fundamental principle: Noether’s theorem.