Codification of fundamental principals of physics

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The discussion centers on the codification of fundamental principles of physics, specifically addressing concepts such as conservation of information, the principle of parsimony, time invariance, and symmetry. Participants highlight that while some principles are indeed codified within established theories like time invariance, others are more abstract notions rather than formal laws of physics. The principle of parsimony, for example, is critiqued as lacking the rigor of scientific law, akin to a mathematical assertion lacking empirical support.

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There are a good number of very fundamental principles that underlie physics (conservation of information, principal of parsimony, time invariance, symmetry, etc.) that don't seem to be listed in modern physics textbooks. Are they codified somewhere?
 
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There are at least 3 principles in your list that I haven't heard of, or are not valid principles of physics.
 
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I had to look some of them up too, basically those things you listed either are codified in theories (time invariance), or are more general ideas that are more notions, less law. For instance, the principle of parsimony is no more physics than saying 'the solution to the equation is 3 because that makes sense' is math.
 

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