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1. madhad+(OP)[view] [source] 2020-04-27 02:29:27
> It's a vector

It's not exactly a vector...

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2. johnmo+ba[view] [source] 2020-04-27 04:46:42
>>madhad+(OP)
It only has direction + magnitude right? (±h/4π)e_i for some unit vector e_i.

So it can be written as a vector? No?

3. crispy+hL[view] [source] 2020-04-27 12:45:00
>>madhad+(OP)
> It's not exactly a vector...

That's right. It's not a vector because it doesn't "transform" like a vector.

If you take a vector and rotate about an axis by 360 degrees, you get the same vector.

If you take a spinor and rotate it by 360 degrees you get a spinor which is "flipped". You have to rotate the spinor by 720 degrees to get back to the same spinor.

This is intrinsically weird, but that's QM.

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