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28 - How Emmy Noether Changed Physics Forever

Why This Universe?

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The Conservation of Electric Charge

The conservation of electric charges is a perfect symmetry of the loss of physics. The Maxwell's equations were actually designed to conserve charge like they put in this thing by hand called the displacement current just to make sure that charge would be conserved. Through Nothers theorem we get a much deeper understanding of where this charge conservation comes from.

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