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Re:Emmy Noether changed the course of physics by lucozade on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @07:23PM (#9608324)
Yes indeed. However, for us to be able to scientifically verify those theories, something about them must be invariant in space, time and rotation. That's pretty much the definition of a scientifically verifiable theory.

My point isn't that there can't be theories without those properties nor that the universe necessarily has them (or not). Just that, if it doesn't, we couldn't verify it scientifically.

Re:Emmy Noether changed the course of physics by abecedarius on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @08:56PM (#9608631)
According to Feynman there once were people saying that since experiments need to be repeatable, to be scientific the laws of physics must be deterministic, by pure logic. Oh, quantum mechanics? Oops.