@weird@sub.wetshaving.social to memes@lemmy.world • 8 days agoThis is the hardest concept to understand in physicssub.wetshaving.socialimagemessage-square109arrow-up1727
arrow-up1727imageThis is the hardest concept to understand in physicssub.wetshaving.social@weird@sub.wetshaving.social to memes@lemmy.world • 8 days agomessage-square109
minus-square@flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilink9•7 days agoThe 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.
minus-square@chortle_tortle@mander.xyzlinkfedilink6•7 days agoThere are also things like Hydrogen Fine Structure , that behaves as though it is a ball that actually spins. 🤷
minus-square@AngryPancake@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink3•7 days agoYou must be thinking of the Stern-Gerlach experiment.
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…
You must be thinking of the Stern-Gerlach experiment.