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MP: Fachverband Theoretische und Mathematische Grundlagen der Physik
MP 11: Thermodynamics and fundamental aspects of field theory
MP 11.4: Talk
Thursday, March 24, 2022, 17:35–17:55, MP-H6
Electrodynamics and the Isoclinic Decomposition of SO(4) — •Alexander Unzicker — Pestalozzi-Gymnasium München
According to William Rowan Hamilton, quaternions are a 'fundamental building block of the physical universe'. By visualizing unit quaternions with the stereographic projection, it is shown that unit quaternions display many characteristic features of electrodynamics. The question as to the origin of this interaction thus might be approached with an alternative description of spacetime by means of quaternions.