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Many things can be represented as more complex structures of simpler things.

It's interesting whether a new formalism allows to express things better, unearth interesting structures not apparent using a more busy formalism, etc.

Compare the Maxwell equations in the wordy original form, and in a highly compact Clifford algebra form.




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