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Curie's principle, or Curie's symmetry principle, is a maxim about cause and effect formulated by Pierre Curie in 1894:

the symmetries of the causes are to be found in the effects.

The idea was based on the ideas of Franz Ernst Neumann and Bernhard Minnigerode. Thus, it is sometimes known as the Neuman–Minnigerode–Curie principle.

References

1. Curie, P. (1894). "Sur la symétrie dans les phénomènes physiques, symétrie d'un champ électrique et d'un champ magnétique" [On the symmetries of physical phenomenae, the electric field, and the magnetic field]. Journal de Physique Théorique et Appliquée (in French). 3 (1). EDP Sciences: 393–415. doi:10.1051/jphystap:018940030039300. ISSN 0368-3893.
2. Castellani, Elena; Jenann, Ismael (December 2016). "Which Curie's Principle?" (PDF). Philosophy of Science. 83 (5): 1002–1013. doi:10.1086/687933. hdl:10150/625244.
3. Ismael, Jenann (February 1997). "Curie's Principle". Synthese. 110 (2): 167–190. doi:10.1023/A:1004929109216.
4. Chalmers, A.F. (May 1970). "Curie's Principle". British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 21 (2): 133–148. doi:10.1093/bjps/21.2.133.
5. Brandmüller, J. (1986). "An extension of the Neumann–Minnigerode–Curie principle" (PDF). Computers & Mathematics with Applications. 12 (1–2). Elsevier BV: 97–100. doi:10.1016/0898-1221(86)90143-4. ISSN 0898-1221.

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