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

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2006.08.003zbMATH Open1223.00019OpenAlexW2019656879MaRDI QIDQ643098FDOQ643098

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

Recommendations

• Symmetries and the explanation of conservation laws in the light of the inverse problem in Lagrangian mechanics
• Do symmetries `explain' conservation laws? The modern converse Noether theorem vs pragmatism
• Symmetries as by-products of conserved quantities
• On metaphysically necessary laws from physics
• Laws of nature as constraints

zbMATH Keywords

conservation lawscounterfactualsNoether's theoremsymmetrieslaws of naturenatural necessity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Cites Work

• Counterfactuals.
• Symmetries in physics. Philosophical reflections
• Fearful symmetry. The search for beauty in modern physics. With a new foreword by Roger Penrose
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Conservation Laws in Classical and Quantum Physics

Cited In (14)

• On metaphysically necessary laws from physics
• Laws, symmetries, and reality
• Newton's laws, symmetry, and the three basic interactions of the nature
• Symmetries and the explanation of conservation laws in the light of the inverse problem in Lagrangian mechanics
• Geometrical Constructivism and Modal Relationalism: Further Aspects of the Dynamical/Geometrical Debate
• The general-relativistic case for super-substantivalism
• Unitary inequivalence as a problem for structural realism
• Metaphysics of the principle of least action
• Principle or constructive relativity
• Symmetries as by-products of conserved quantities
• Drawing the line between kinematics and dynamics in special relativity
• The heuristic power of theory classification, the case of general relativity
• Stable regularities without governing laws?
• The applicability of mathematics to physical modality

This page was built for publication: Laws and meta-laws of nature: conservation laws and symmetries

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q643098)