# Symmetry and emergence

@article{Witten2018SymmetryAE,
title={Symmetry and emergence},
author={Edward Witten},
journal={Nature Physics},
year={2018},
volume={14},
pages={116-119}
}
• E. Witten
• Published 4 October 2017
• Physics
• Nature Physics
In a modern understanding of particle physics, global symmetries are approximate and gauge symmetries may be emergent. This view, which has echoes in condensed-matter physics, is supported by a variety of arguments from experiment and theory.
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