I was looking through the Feynman lectures on physics, and he
mentioned briefly that the symmetry in overall phase of a wavefunction
(that is, that overall phase is arbitrary/irrelevant) is related to
the conservation of charge. Is this true, and if so, can someone
explain the logic behind this?
Finsler Geometry? Who ordered that? ...Physics today has many observational ...reference frames introducing compensating gauge connection dynamical fields.... breakdown of ground state orientational symmetry.... N-connection from Finsler geometry and the diagonal terms are some ... (sci.math)
Finsler Geometry? Who ordered that? ...Physics today has many observational ...reference frames introducing compensating gauge connection dynamical fields.... breakdown of ground state orientational symmetry.... N-connection from Finsler geometry and the diagonal terms are some ... (sci.astro)
Finsler Geometry? Who ordered that? ...Physics today has many observational ...reference frames introducing compensating gauge connection dynamical fields.... breakdown of ground state orientational symmetry.... N-connection from Finsler geometry and the diagonal terms are some ... (sci.physics.relativity)
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Re: Why not O(3)? ... some transformation, or that this transformation doesn't change the ... Declare that the physics must be ... a local symmetry condition rather than a global symmetry condition. ... SR can be reduced to the postulate that the form of physical law is ... (sci.physics)