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A pendulum trades height for speed and back again, never losing a drop. A star turns a sliver of its own mass into a hundred million years of light. Through every change, energy stays perfectly balanced, never created and never destroyed. But if it can never be made, where did it come from?

Tonight we take the slow road to the deepest answer physics has found, following a thrown ball, the strange principle of least action, and the mathematician who saw all the way to the bottom of it.

Get comfortable, dim the lights, and let this quiet walk through symmetry and the laws of physics carry you off to sleep. Subscribe to Sundown Science if you enjoy the long way around the universe.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
1:48 The Rule Everyone Knows
12:14 What Symmetry Really Means
22:26 A Law Indifferent to Place
33:20 A Law Indifferent to Time
43:23 The Claim That Sounds Impossible
53:13 The Path of Least Action
1:04:50 Two Ideas About to Meet
1:13:52 A Tiny Piece of a Path
1:24:05 Where Momentum Comes From
1:36:14 The Same Trick in Time
1:47:46 Noether and Her Theorem
1:58:36 So Where It Comes From

SOURCES
Noether's theorem — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether...
Emmy Noether — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_No...
Symmetry (physics) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetr...)
Conservation of energy — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conserv...
Momentum — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum
Action principles — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_...
Lagrangian mechanics — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrang...
Hamiltonian mechanics — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilto...
Hermann Weyl — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann...
The Feynman Lectures on Physics — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fey...
Newton's law of universal gravitation — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%...
Translational symmetry — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transla...
Conservation law — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conserv...
Cavendish experiment — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendi...

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