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Is Local Gauge Symmetry Explanatory?
Our best current theories of the world, in terms of predicting things and being accurately mapped to data are quantum field theories. And gravity changes everything a little bitsofor folks who are not experts in these buzz words. Joel curtis says he has no idea why our most successful theories explain interactions and forces in terms of local gauge symmetries is explanatory in any deep sense.