symmetries

The beauty of spatial symmetries is well known in the realm of art and architecture, from the ornamental arabesques of the old Alhambra to the recent intricate woodcuts signed by Escher, from the palace of the Doges in Venice to the

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1980 - Presentation Speech 1992

The appeal to principles such as symmetries as unifying frameworks when applied to laws of interactions (“forces”) at the subatomic level or to macroscopic phenomena of phase transition, for instance, lack the epistemic descriptive and explanatory power that they are commonly attributed, at the expense of the unifying and more explanatory concept of symmetry breaking.

The Unity of Science Cat, Jordi 2007

On the other hand, we have a purely mathematical world, the abstract theory of symmetries and group theory.

Emmy Noether – Ada Lovelace Day! 2009

We remember (or should) the arrangements and textures of the plantation house, the symmetries of the banana rows.

Translated Texts 2010

Thus, the order seen at the "higher" snowflake level (12 symmetries) is only a miniscule fraction of the unseen order at the "deeper," spherical level (infinite symmetry).

Matt J. Rossano: Are Infinities More Scientific Than God? Matt J. Rossano 2011

The theorem states, roughly, that conserved quantities in physical systems (energy, angular momentum and so on) are in reality the reflections of symmetries in certain deeper mathematical structures underlying them (**).

Emmy Noether – Ada Lovelace Day! 2009

Together they explore availabilities: of scents at the hairline along the neck, soft terrains and pathways; of symmetries that link the descent of a hand with the arching of a back and hitches in breath with a whispered “be discrete this is a public place.”

Event Particle stephen hastings-king 2010

For fifteen minutes Michael forgot about Brother Cyrus and simply studied the tessellation in the carpet, trying to identify all of its rotational symmetries.

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

Such are the strange symmetries within lives that Amolak and I were both getting married within five weeks of each other to kind-hearted blonde women from the north.

Sarfraz Manzoor: My family said they would boycott my wedding Sarfraz Manzoor 2010

The lovely thing is that we discover that talking about the symmetries of a physical system and talking about what kind of ‘book-keeping’ that system uses are in an important sense both just different ways of saying the same thing.

Emmy Noether – Ada Lovelace Day! 2009