[LEAPSECS] props for talks?

[Tony Finch]

David Malone <dwmalone at maths.tcd.ie> wrote:

>

> (If you were talking to a older audience, you could talk about time

> being a variable in the euqations of motion and physical laws being

> invarient under shifts in time.)


And you should mention Noether's Theorem, which says that conservation of
momentum and energy are a consequence of this invariant. It's much more
general than that, of course :-)

Tony.
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