Edward Frenkel
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2,304 appearances
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first heard Apr 2023
last heard Apr 2023
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Yet, if I do it second time, it untwists.
This is the pi one of SO3, Eric is talking about.
So there is something where,
The first motion is not trivial, but if you double down on it, you come back to the initial position.
It's very closely connected to the fact that we have elementary particles of two types, bosons and fermions.
So bosons are, for example, photons or carriers of other forces, or the Higgs boson.
It is called a boson for a reason, because it is a boson, in honor of Indian mathematician Bose, B-O-S-E, and Einstein.
So these particles obey what's called Bose-Einstein statistics.
But then there are other particles called fermions in honor of Enrico Fermi, Italian-born mathematician who worked in the U.S.,
And they follow what's called Dirac Fermi statistics.
And those are electrons and constituents of matter, electrons, protons, neutrons, and so on.
And they have a certain duplicity, if you will.
And that duplicity is rooted mathematically in this experiment, this little experiment that I have just done.
So I imagine, speaking of imagination, okay?
Yeah.
So I'm just kind of riffing on this.
Imagine a world in which this will not be shocking or like... In this case, it's not even shocking because I haven't really explained the details because I can't do it in two minutes.
I indicated...
What is this all about?
And so on.
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