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[–] i_love_FFT@jlai.lu 6 points 8 hours ago

There is the famous "belt trick", plus this PBS Spacetime really explains it well!

https://youtu.be/pWlk1gLkF2Y

All macroscopic examples of spinor involve an object attached to the exterior world. Electrons having spin 1/2 therefore imply that they don't exist "by themselves" and are embedded in a larger field.

I'm not sure whether that would be the electron field of the electromagnetic field, or maybe all of the fields?