“So what is a {{w|square root}}? Why do I say it's a square root? Because... the {{w|tensor product}} of the {{w|spinor}}s... is the {{w|exterior algebra}}. So the spinors are, in some sense, the square root, not of one form of a given degree, but [of] the sum of them all.”

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