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A bit of an aside, but one of the best Evangelion episodes invovlves a Dirac Sea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aoLMp6q3js

I always cringe when I see math or programming or anything I know something about in popular media as it's usually done so poorly.

So how badly did they butcher the concept of the Dirac sea for the episode? Of course it's all fiction anyways, so it doesn't really matter, but the inner geek in me wants to know!

Unusually, I don't think it was butchered particularly badly. The sea I believe existed inside of the attacking "angel," and had certain psychological-probing properties.

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