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Noether's Theorem and The Symmetries of Reality

PBS Space Time

Season 2018Episode 18Aired 2018-05-16
Noether's Theorem and The Symmetries of Reality

Noether's Theorem and The Symmetries of Reality

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.