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The Simple Failure of Curie’s Principle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Bryan W. Roberts
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Abstract

I point out a simple sense in which the standard formulation of Curie’s principle is false when the symmetry transformation it describes is time reversal.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 80 , Issue 4 , October 2013 , pp. 579 - 592
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

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For their helpful comments and suggestions I would like to thank John Earman, John D. Norton, and the December 8, 2012, audience at the Southern California Philosophy of Physics Reading Group at the University of California, Irvine.

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