This Teaching Tuesday, we delve into theoretical physics and learn about group theory – the scientific language of symmetry, paramount to particle physics, but also to the study of molecules or crystals. We investigate the symmetries of simple geometric shapes, and use them as a stepping stone to grasp the symmetries of the laws of physics which govern the Universe.

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Chapters
00:0002:13 Introduction
02:1307:24 What is symmetry?
07:2416:25 Group theory
16:2520:17 Noether's theorem
20:1724:15 The Standard Model

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