Heidelberg 2022 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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MP: Fachverband Theoretische und Mathematische Grundlagen der Physik

MP 11: Thermodynamics and fundamental aspects of field theory

MP 11.4: Vortrag

Donnerstag, 24. März 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.