army1987 comments on Rationally Irrational - Less Wrong

-11 Post author: HungryTurtle 07 March 2012 07:21PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 06 April 2012 10:39:33PM 0 points [-]

Quantum physics is invariant under temporal translation too.

Comment author: Dmytry 06 April 2012 10:48:12PM *  2 points [-]

The laws don't change by definition. If something changes, we try to figure out some invariant description of how it changes, and call that a law. We presume a law even when we don't know the invariant description (as is the case with QM&gravity combined). If there was magic in the real world, we'd do the same thing and have same invariant laws of magic, even though number of symmetries may have been lower.