Talking Physics: Spinors and Twistors.

In this episode of the Talking Physics series, we discuss an object that is integral to our understanding of particle physics, relativistic quantum mechanics, condensed matter physics among many other fields - The Spinors! Particularly, we will build up machinery from Lorentz invariance to Weyl Spinors, then Dirac and Majorana Spinors, and finally, we will touch upon Twistors. Twistor theory was originally proposed by Penrose as a possible opening to understanding Quantum Gravity, so what better time to discuss these objects than the week of his Nobel Prize win. We shall hope that one day, one of us can carry on his legacy and realize his dream!