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#246 – Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong

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The Twister Spell With an O and Spinner Is Spelled With a O

I don't know what is a good starting point for twister three. I can by the way say twister spell with an o and spinner is spelled with an o as well yes okay so in case you want to google it and look it up that's very nice Wikipedia pages as the starting point. What are spinners or something that independently came out of mathematics and out of physics and um to say where they came out of physics? Well people realized when they started looking at elementary particles like electrons or whatever that there seemed to be some kind of doubling of the degrees of freedom going on if you counted  what was there in some sense in the way you would expect it.

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