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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

It's only half spinning too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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.

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

There are also things like Hydrogen Fine Structure , that behaves as though it is a ball that actually spins. 🤷

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

...that is f*cking brilliant...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

You must be thinking of the Stern-Gerlach experiment.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Ah yes the spin

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The trick is to accept it without thinking about it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Shut up and calculate!

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

I've always understood it more like a cake that's moist, but it's not a cake and it's not moist.

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

The middle finger is for B field. The thumb is reserved for force. The index finger is for current. 🎵

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I am imagining a glorious unibrow

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