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cygx on May 26, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Emmy Noether changed the course of physics

Let's not get carried away here: Relativity predates Noether's theorems.

In fact, the reason why they were established was because Klein and Hilbert asked for Emmy Noether's help in figuring out energy conservation in GR.

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