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  • noun Plural form of spinor.

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Examples

  • (It would require new field physics (dark spinors, I think they are called) to explain this possibility.)

    Astronomers Find Black Holes Do Not Absorb Dark Matter | Universe Today 2010

  • The pair of spinors or the twistor constructs a manifold according to its projective structure, which defines light cones and so forth.

    Einstein Still Rules, Says Fermi Telescope Team | Universe Today 2009

  • A twistor is a pair of spinors well what's a spinor?

    Einstein Still Rules, Says Fermi Telescope Team | Universe Today 2009

  • The ellipsis involves derivatives of the other spinors and delta functions etc.

    Dark Matter: Still Dark. Julianne 2008

  • Since bivectors give you Lie algebras, you get gauge-group-type things, and you might think of spinors as fermions, and think of the vector space as spacetime, and even try to put such things together to form Lagrangians … and see where Einstein-type faith might lead.

    My Favorite Holiday Treat? Richard Dawkins Mark 2007

  • One way to see this is that a supersymmetric extension of Yang-Mills theory must have two component spinors, valued in one of these algebras.

    Why 10 or 11? Sean 2006

  • Another way to see this is that the supersymmetry charge is fermionic and this is generated by two component spinors that transform under a representation of SL (2, A).

    Why 10 or 11? Sean 2006

  • This point of view puts connections, spinors and the Dirac operator in central roles in modern geometry, and I happen to think it is a very deep and amazing fact that the same constructs are among the fundamental constructs of the standard model.

    Not Even Wrong Sean 2005

  • {Q, Q} = 2H and the existence of Killing vectors coming from Killing spinors is the same.

    Our First Guest Blogger - Lawrence Krauss Mark 2005

  • The rotational symmetry of a theory including spinors heavily depends on the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics.

    The Reference Frame 2010

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