Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 04:07:47 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: quote about open source Message-ID: <20010203040747.B35712@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200102022305.QAA16383@usr08.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:05:58PM %2B0000 References: <20010202151744.O38235@lpt.ens.fr> <200102022305.QAA16383@usr08.primenet.com>
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On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:05:58PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote:
> 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.
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