About ‘Dirac's Belts Swimming in Dirac's Sea’ by Elke Stangl (elkement)
The drawing illustrates how a rotation by 720° can be undone, in a way a 360° rotation can't. Dirac's Belt Trick also goes by the name of "plate trick, and it is usually introduced in relation to spins in quantum mechanics. But the trick shows that the topology of rotations in 3D space is generally weirder than one might think.…
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