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28 - How Emmy Noether Changed Physics Forever

Why This Universe?

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Theorem of Symmetry

Symmetry is probably a familiar concept for you already. But in the world of physics and math symmetries have a much more general definition. If I take a perfect square and I rotate it by any integer number of 90 degrees around its center you still have exactly the same square. So we like to say that the set of integers has a symmetry which is under the operation of addition.

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