Laws and meta-laws of nature: conservation laws and symmetries

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2006.08.003MaRDI QIDQ643098zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marc Lange

Publication date 27 October 2011

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2006.08.003

zbMATH Keywords

conservation lawscounterfactualslaws of naturenatural necessityNoether's theoremsymmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Physics (00A79) Axiomatics, foundations (70A05)

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