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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sounds like a class with an attribute called spin.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It does however also have repercussions that are inline with it being a sphere that is spinning.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Didn't it say it wasn't spinning?

Also I love your handle.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Thank you!

And yes you are correct, as it exists as a probability wave and has not finite size, it is not spinning. It does however have intrinsic angular momentum as seen in effects like Hydrogen Fine Structure, that behave exactly as though it were a ball spinning, with a set specific angular momentum. But don't worry, the confusion is alleviated when you learn that it very definitely isn't a ball spinning as it doesn't have a singular spin but rather a super position of possible spin states. You can think of it like, for example, three parts spinning clockwise and one part spinning counter-clockwise.

It usually around this point that I am reminded that the universe does not owe my puny monkey brain a lick of sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I read an article that was arguing that the universe could be unknowable to our brains. That was real depressing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

More like its so small the idea of spin doesn't really mean anything.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The universe is a digital simulation confirmed

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

The memory required to track all these particles was insane, so we just made a wave of where they were most likely to be and picked a random spot when the exact location was needed. 🤷

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

there's lots of physics that cannot be described in algorithmic terms, and (as best I misunderstand it) quantum is the most that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

QM is entirely algorithmic, it just operates on values that are of type "Probability Distribution"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Are you implying that's wrong or you just don't know

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

i'm just kinda skeptical of suggesting we live in a computer simulation

tens of thousands of years ago, people looked up into the night sky or a raging tempest and projected human-like traits onto it.

Now instead of seeing an angry father figure in the stars, we're surrounded by computers so we look up (or down, in quantum cases), and see a desktop environment. It's... awful convenient.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I wasn't suggesting that, I just meant that a theory can be algorithmic while working with probability distributions rather than deterministic values.