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Spinor classification
[edit]Hello, Would it be appropriate to include a section on spinor classification in this article? An alternative approach would be to have a separate article on spinor classification as this article is a lengthy article. I could write the section or article if needed.TMM53 (talk) 03:20, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
Much, much much room for improvement
[edit]I hope someone knowledgeable about this subject can rewrite as much of this article as possible. Even the so-called mathematical definition is written so that this mathematician can barely understand what is being said.
For example, its first sentence reads as follows:
"The space of spinors is formally defined as the fundamental representation of the Clifford algebra."
Okay, so the space of spinors is defined as one homomorphism from a Clifford algebra to a bunch of matrices. That still doesn't tell us what a spinor is.
How can an article on spinors not tell readers what a spinor is? ~2026-15500-14 (talk) 19:08, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
One sentence does make sense
[edit]"vectors of a space the transformations of which are related in a particular way to rotations in physical space"
Uhm... what? I'm no native speaker, admittedly, but I totally do not get the grammar of this sentence, even after reading it ten times slowly. It seems there are two sentenced mixed up or a lot of punctuation is missing. To me it would make sense in this way:
"vectors of a space which are related in a particular way to rotations in physical space"
or that way:
"vectors of a space, with transformations that are related in a particular way to rotations in physical space" ~2026-37730-05 (talk) 16:35, 30 June 2026 (UTC)
- It's a quotation from the source (not that this bears on the main point, but important to note before rewriting it to something else). Sławomir Biały (talk) 17:47, 30 June 2026 (UTC)