Conservation Law - Exact Laws

A partial listing of conservation laws that are said to be exact laws, or more precisely have never been shown to be violated:

  • Conservation of mass-energy
  • Conservation of linear momentum
  • Conservation of angular momentum
  • Conservation of electric charge
  • Conservation of color charge
  • Conservation of weak isospin
  • Conservation of probability
  • CPT symmetry (combining charge, parity and time conjugation)
  • Lorentz symmetry

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