To begin to understand what mathematicians and physicists see in the abstract structures of symmetries, let’s start with a familiar shape. We are fond of saying things are symmetric, but what does ...

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Is the universe symmetric? It’s a really useful question to have the answer to when doing calculations, because symmetries tend to make the math much easier. Most of the physics discovered over the ...