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Actually it's the other way around. Because of translation invariance we have the law of conservation of momentum. Because of temporal invariance we have the law of conservation of energy. Every symmetry gives rise to a physical conservation law, from which forces can be derived.

See Noether's theorem.



* every differentiable symmetry of an action

(Sorry to be nitpicky, but the asterisk is very important haha)




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