Lol dummy the photon is an irreducible representation in the SU(2)×U(1) symmetry group when you rotate it by about 30°.
Hope I cleared that all up. Don't ask any follow up questions.
Hope I cleared that all up. Don't ask any follow up questions.
IMO, this desire to "simplify" something that cannot really be simplified is why so much pop sci around quantum stuff is just nonsense. Even normal words mean entirely different things in the realm of quantum physics. The layman doesn't understand what quantum computing does because the layman doesn't even have a knowledge of calculus, and all the intuition about the behavior of mathematical systems that comes with it, let alone the kind of linear algebra, discrete math, and higher level math like fields.
People need to stop pretending that the most advanced mathematical constructs humankind has conceived, standing on ten thousand years of the smartest minds we have ever birthed, is something that John Q Public can expect to understand.
It's no different than me being unable to discuss influences on Picaso's work because I have never taken an art history class. Sure, I could parrot some dumbed down thought someone else feeds me, but I emphatically do not have the context and surrounding knowledge to extract any meaning from that.