Re: Dirac String Trick

[Hugh Haskell <hhaskell@MINDSPRING.COM>]

At 5:40 -0400 5/13/01, John S. Denker wrote:

> At 12:25 AM 5/13/01 -0400, Hugh Haskell wrote:
> > I suspect that the explanation of this trick is closer to quaternions
> > than fermions.
>
> Hmmmmmm.  I don't see how it could be much closer to one than the other.
>
>   --  I suspect that quaternions are rather closely related to
>       Pauli spin matrices.
>   --  I suspect that Pauli spin matrices have something to do
>       with the physics of fermions.
>
> Once we have quaternions, we can talk about fermions (and a lot more).

I defer to your superior understanding.

Hugh
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