Timeline for Can a sphere glued into a soft 3d-mattress rotate continuously? (manifolds, SU(2) and the belt trick)
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| Sep 24, 2017 at 12:05 | comment | added | Messages from various people | There are even papers on the deep relation between the belt trick and Dirac's equation. | |
| Sep 24, 2017 at 12:04 | comment | added | Messages from various people | Jason Hise has many other great visualizations of the belt trick on entropygames.net . Additional ones are found on motionmountain.net/videos.html and in my free physics text. | |
| Sep 24, 2017 at 11:51 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | (This answer was posted before the OP significantly revised the question.) | |
| Sep 24, 2017 at 11:36 | comment | added | Messages from various people | True, but the belt/plate trick does not imply that the mattress trick works - at least not so simply. That is the reason for the question. | |
| Sep 24, 2017 at 11:27 | history | edited | Joseph O'Rourke | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 24, 2017 at 11:22 | history | answered | Joseph O'Rourke | CC BY-SA 3.0 |