On 26 May 2015 at 05:45, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2015 , Pierz <pier...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > Bruno *did* acknowledge that his theory predicts that the laws of >> physics are invariant across space and time, because they are supposed to >> arise out of pure arithmetic >> > > We know from pure mathematics (by way of Noether's theorem discovered in > 1915) that if the fundamental laws of physics do not change with time then > the conservation of mass/energy must exist. And Noether also tells us that > if the fundamental laws of physics do not change from one place to another > then the law of conservation of momentum must exist. By the way, I don't > think Emmy Noether received the credit she deserved for this enormously > important discovery. >
One of the understatements of the century, although I think Einstein, Hilbert and others gave her the credit she was due. But not the world outside the scientific establishment. Indeed it took years for her to get any sort of academic post if I remember correctly. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
