Timeline for What does the statement "the laws of physics are invariant" mean?
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| Feb 14, 2015 at 2:56 | vote | accept | Stan Shunpike | ||
| Jan 31, 2015 at 8:48 | comment | added | user12262 | Alfred Centauri: "['The laws of physics are invariant'] is a statement about the nature of physical law. Put another way, on this principle, an alleged 'physical law' that isn't invariant under inertial coordinate transformations is not a genuine physical law." -- In other words: Any assertion which does not involve or refer to any coordinates at all, does, by all appearances, conform to the "nature" of "a genuine physical law". And, arguably, by content, too. "Consider, for example $\vec F = m~\vec a$. If this equation holds in one coordinate system [...]" -- Does it ?? ... | |
| Jan 30, 2015 at 13:27 | history | answered | Alfred Centauri | CC BY-SA 3.0 |