Analogy Memes

Quantum physics: where explanations start with "just imagine" and end with "but actually nothing like that at all." The beauty of electron spin is that we're forced to use classical analogies that immediately self-destruct! It's like telling someone to picture a square circle—your brain just goes *error 404*. Physicists literally created a property called "spin" that has absolutely nothing to do with spinning, then drew pictures of spinning things to explain it. No wonder physics students develop eye twitches by senior year.