Physics · History & Philosophy of Physics
A topic within History & Philosophy of Physics, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Physics.
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Emmy Noether
Proves that every continuous symmetry of a physical system's action corresponds to a conserved quantity, deriving conservation of energy and momentum from symmetries of space and time rather than assuming them.
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Argues that invariance principles are logically prior to the laws of physics themselves, because a law only counts as such by holding across the symmetries an event's description already assumes.
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