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Before we talk about what we can derive from symmetry, let’s clarify what we need to put into the theories by hand. First of all, there is presently no theory that is able to derive the constants of nature. These constants need to be extracted from experiments. Examples are the coupling constants of the various interactions and the masses of the elementary particles.

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Schwichtenberg, J. (2015). Introduction. In: Physics from Symmetry. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19201-7_1

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