What’s the point of a Möbius strip? Other than being a cool shape, why/how is it important and what does it help us understand?
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Mobius strips are a concrete example of something surprising and strange out of the worlds of higher order geometry and topology (the mathematics of shapes and deformations).
On top of that, the Mobius strip gives us a nice solid example of how spinors work – mathematical objects that require two full rotations to come back to where they started. Before you say wtf (as most people would!), just know that in quantum mechanics, lots of things act this way including the 1/2 spin particles. THey’re also representable with two dimensional complex vectors.
Math is cool – so many bridges and connections to other things that aren’t obviously connected. Either you’re into that sort of thing or you’re not. Saul Goodman.
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