Okay, But What Is Spin?

Okay, But What Is Spin?
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The confident physicist claims he can understand anything, then immediately crumbles when faced with quantum spin. Classic! Quantum spin is that delightful property of subatomic particles that has absolutely nothing to do with actual spinning. It's just mathematically similar enough to angular momentum that some sleep-deprived physicist in the 1920s said "eh, close enough" and the name stuck. Even veteran physicists who can recite the equations in their sleep still can't intuitively explain what spin actually is. It's like trying to explain why your cat suddenly sprints across the room at 3 AM—there's a mathematical description, but no one truly understands the phenomenon.

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