azabak Messages 32 Reaction score 0 Thread starter Mar 8, 2012 #1 What symmetry of nature yields the conservation of electric charge?
TrickyDicky Messages 3,507 Reaction score 28 Mar 8, 2012 #2 azabak said: What symmetry of nature yields the conservation of electric charge? Gauge symmetry of EM (arbitrariness of electric potential up to an additive constant and equivalently phase shift invariance of wavefunction in QM).
azabak said: What symmetry of nature yields the conservation of electric charge? Gauge symmetry of EM (arbitrariness of electric potential up to an additive constant and equivalently phase shift invariance of wavefunction in QM).