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Comment by dinosaurdynasty

4 days ago

Conservation laws result from continuous symmetries in the laws of physics, as proven by Noether's theorem.

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dheera  4 days ago

Time translation symmetry implies energy conservation, but time translation symmetry is only an empirical observation on a local scale and has not been shown to be true on a global universe scale.

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