Broken Symmetry and Spacetime.
The phenomenon of broken spacetime symmetry in the quantum theory of infinite systems seems to point toward an unorthodox ontology. The standard conception of the physical meaning of these symmetries, as changes in coordinates, conflicts with the apparent physical inequivalence of symmetry-related s...
| Published in: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 78; no. 1; pp. 128 - 149 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jan2011
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