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“The existence of symmetry laws is in full accordance with our daily experience. …” — Chen-Ning Yang
The existence of symmetry laws is in full accordance with our daily experience. The simplest of these symmetries, the isotropy and homogeneity of space, are concepts that date back to the early history of human thought.
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