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work_qtfqklvamnhcpogaw6jq642lsy	Aldo Filomeno	Fundamentality, Effectiveness, and Objectivity of Gauge Symmetries	2016	29	.pdf	application/pdf	10117	811	58	I draw attention to the contingency that gauge symmetries exhibit, i.e. the fact that they have been chosen from among a countably infinite space of possibilities. • Said features help to explain the astonishing effectiveness of group theory in particle physics. astonishing success of local gauge symmetries in the constitution of modern particle physics bolstered the enthusiasm. Second, I argue that said feature makes the astonishing success of group theory in particle physics not unreasonable but, on the contrary, to be expected. This means that, paraphrasing Wigner, local gauge symmetries have an ontological "active" role and provide physically significant claims about the carvings of The falsity this assumption amounts to an interpretation of gauge symmetries as redundant surplus mathematical structure (as in Wigner (1967), Ismael the first dimension of the contingency of the symmetry groups chosen: in the description of an elementary interaction, SU(3) is just one of the infinite possible	./cache/work_qtfqklvamnhcpogaw6jq642lsy.pdf	./txt/work_qtfqklvamnhcpogaw6jq642lsy.txt