Thursday, 1 June 2017

group theory - Rotation in Higher Dimensions


In a world of three spatial dimensions plus time, every atom rotates around a line, the axis of rotation.


In a world of $N$ spatial dimensions where $N$ is greater than 3, must every atom rotate, and if so does it rotate around a line, a plane, or a subspace of smaller number of dimensions?




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