Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 01:08:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: kris@obsecurity.org (Kris Kennaway) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: quote about open source Message-ID: <200102060108.SAA06221@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20010203040747.B35712@xor.obsecurity.org> from "Kris Kennaway" at Feb 03, 2001 04:07:47 AM
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> > waving. Even today, unless you take your QED classes from an
> > extremely enlightened professor, you are likely to not ever hear
> > about Clifford algebras, and even get a theoretical physics
> > degree, without laying your hands on this important tool.
>
> Umm, I'm not sure how you could learn QED without encountering a
> clifford algebra. That's essentially the defining relation of spinor
> fields (fermions), i.e. they carry a representation of the clifford
> algebra:
>
> \{ \psi^\mu, \psi^\nu \} = \eta^{\mu\nu}
>
> Kris, who learned QED from a not very enlightened professor.
My beard is showing, I think...
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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