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I learned in Analytical Mechanics: "Emmy Noether's theorem shows that every conserved quantity is due to a symmetry".
The examples I learned where conservation of energy as symmetry in time and conservation of momentum as symmetries in space.
Now I wonder, do universal constants are also due to symmetries like the speed of light?.
Maybe if we lived in a word that couldn't help but be symmetric in space, then there would be a universal value for momentum for all things, or I don't know.
The idea is that the speed of light is constant because of a symmetry inherent to the universe, but knowable nonetheless.
The speed of light is the first one I thought about, but now I wonder if this could apply to other universal constants, like G for gravity and k for electromagnetism.
Now, I have no idea what this symmetries would be, and maybe I am generalizing wrong, if so please illuminate me.
Thanks
The examples I learned where conservation of energy as symmetry in time and conservation of momentum as symmetries in space.
Now I wonder, do universal constants are also due to symmetries like the speed of light?.
Maybe if we lived in a word that couldn't help but be symmetric in space, then there would be a universal value for momentum for all things, or I don't know.
The idea is that the speed of light is constant because of a symmetry inherent to the universe, but knowable nonetheless.
The speed of light is the first one I thought about, but now I wonder if this could apply to other universal constants, like G for gravity and k for electromagnetism.
Now, I have no idea what this symmetries would be, and maybe I am generalizing wrong, if so please illuminate me.
Thanks