It's only half spinning too.
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The way I understood it (probably wrong): imagine if a point like thing, but is actually a wave, hits something else. It will leave a trace on the detector curving in a certain direction. This is interpreted as angular momentum aka spin.
There are also things like Hydrogen Fine Structure , that behaves as though it is a ball that actually spins. 🤷
...that is f*cking brilliant...
Ah yes the spin
The trick is to accept it without thinking about it
It's actually kind of liberating when you manage to do that.
It's not true, but if you pretend it is, it allows you to do all kinds of math. Follow the rules as if the spin were real and there were real momentum and it allows you to predict things that you can test. It's almost like looking at a really good magic trick, where you know that what you seem to be seeing isn't possible, but the magician is manipulating things so that your brain can anticipate what's coming next.
Shut up and calculate!
I've always understood it more like a cake that's moist, but it's not a cake and it's not moist.
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