The drawing illustrates how a rotation by 720° can be undone, in a way a 360° rotation can't. Dirac's Belt Trick also goes by the name of "plate trick, and it is usually introduced in relation to spins in quantum mechanics. But the trick shows that the topology of rotations in 3D space is generally weirder than one might think.…
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Elke Stangl (elkement) (she/her) is an Austrian physics PhD working as an engineer. Her mathematical art is borne out of her life-long passion for the theoretical underpinnings of her craft. She is creating virtual three-dimensional structures from mathematical functions – digitally with code or with ruler and compass, using traditional techniques of descriptive geometry.
Her initial inspiration was Sir Roger Penrose’s book The Road to Reality, the hand-crafted…
