Conservation laws with Dr Chiara Marletto

About this episode

Dr Chiara Marletto discusses the significance of conservation laws in physics and their implications in various domains including quantum mechanics.

Our most far-reaching principles of physics are not about what changes, but what stays the same: conservation laws. In this episode of the Quantum Foundations Podcast, Dr Chiara Marletto from the University of Oxford explains how such principles enable discovery of new physical phenomena; their central role in thermodynamics; controversies about how they hold up in quantum mechanics; and how they can be used to formulate results about future theories of physics beyond quantum.

People in this episode

Host: Maria Violaris

Guest: Dr Chiara Marletto

Topics covered

• conservation laws
• quantum mechanics
• thermodynamics
• physical phenomena
• future theories of physics

Keywords

• conservation laws
• quantum mechanics
• thermodynamics
• physical phenomena
• future theories

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Oxford

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