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Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Dirac's belt trick

This one popped up while I was watching YouTube shorts

Have you seen this trick?! 🤔🤚😅 | Triple Charm #shorts
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Dennis replied with this one:

Illustration of Dirac's belt trick
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Here's a slightly longer demonstration using a real belt.

The Belt Trick
Daniel Ramras

Here we have a cutie making the same demonstration:

Dirac's Belt Trick demonstrated with long hair
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All this twisting and untwisting reminded me of bandsaw blades:

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The belt trick purports to illustrate something about electron spin. Here's an hour long video that might explain it. I only watched the first few minutes.

Who was this guy Dirac? Well, seems like he was pretty popular back in the day.

1927 Solvay Conference: Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli (back row, third and fourth from right, resp.) and Paul Dirac (right dead center) Credit: iharsten/Flickr, CC BY 2.0
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac OM FRS (1902 – 1984) was an English theoretical physicist who is regarded as one of the most significant physicists of the 20th century.




1 comment:

Ole phat stu said...

Well that proves we live on a world with only three extended spatial Dimensions.