FIELD EQUATIONS OR CONSERVATION LAWS?
FIELD EQUATIONS OR CONSERVATION LAWS?

Author(s): Mauro Francaviglia, Marcella Palese, Ekkehart Winterroth
Subject(s): History, Social Sciences
Published by: Scientia Socialis, UAB
Keywords: Being; Becoming; Conservation laws; Field theory; Noether’s Theorems;
Summary/Abstract: We explicate some epistemological implications of stationary principles and in particular of Noether Theorems. Noether’s contribution to the problem of covariance, in fact, is epistemologically relevant, since it moves the attention from equations to conservation laws.

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