Re: Spinors

On 2005-04-03, gp <pajer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Many of the examples from everyday life require that the object that you
> want to represent by a spinor be conneceted to something stationary ...
> a shoulder, some twine, etc. So should I start looking for a picture
> of spin that *connects* the electron to something?

It reminds me of the Dirac string stretching off to infinity in a
picture of a magnetic monopole. (see, e.g., p. 279 of the third edition
of Jackson's _Classical Electrodynamics_.)

Apply the usual duality rotation and you've got yourself an electron.

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Aaron Denney
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