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Anonymous Sat 03 Apr 17:00:24 2021 No.12920885 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12921813 >>12921876 >>12921921 >>12921927

What is a spinor? I've heard it described as the square root of a vector, but isn't the square root of a vector just a new vector?

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Anonymous Sat 03 Apr 2021 21:12:39 No.12921813 Report

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>>12920885
A vector with complex numbers in a two dimensional space whatever that means.

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Anonymous Sat 03 Apr 2021 21:35:25 No.12921876 Report

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>>12920885
an element of a vector space where an action of the spin group is defined. spin group is like the rotation group but you need to go around twice to get from identity to identity.

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Anonymous Sat 03 Apr 2021 21:46:39 No.12921897 Report

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>>12921876
>go around twice
https://youtu.be/JDJKfs3HqRg?t=20

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Anonymous Sat 03 Apr 2021 21:54:03 No.12921921 Report

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>>12920885
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjfk4X5HywI

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Anonymous Sat 03 Apr 2021 21:55:45 No.12921927 Report

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Nobody actually knows, the person who theorized / discovered them might have understood but he's long gone.

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