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How to visualize a Witt vector?

You can view the spectrum of the ring Witt vectors, in the sense of scheme theory, pretty reasonably. If $R$ is $p$-torsion free, then $\mathrm{Spec}(W_n(R))$ is $n+1$ copies (or $n$ if you use the t …
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