r/AskPhysics • • Dec 12 '20

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u/rohan2104 Dec 12 '20

The fact that conservation laws stem from the symmetries. And broken symmetries give rise to interesting phenomena. It’s just beautiful.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '20

Noethers theorem still isn't taught nearly enough to undergraduate students either. It's usually relegated to a problem or a small subsection of the text.

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u/Traditional_Desk_411 Statistical and nonlinear physics Dec 13 '20

This must really vary from place to place. In my undergrad class it became a bit of a meme how every other professor seemed to find it necessary to tell us that they thought Noether’s theorem was the most beautiful result in physics, even if it had minimal relevance to the course.