Hello there!
I’ve seen a meme saying something like: “Electron spin explained: imagine a ball that’s rotating, except it’s not a ball and it’s not rotating”.
I remember from school the electrons were represented like balls and there was this spin number also.
So, what’s wrong with that? What’s the true from of an Electron?
Sorry for the bad English.
In: Physics
Physicists were trying to account for all of the energy of an electron and found that they had some energy left over that they couldn’t account for. They found that if they added angular motion to their equations it accounted for the extra energy. So that’s how particles that don’t really have a size or shape came to have a “spin”.
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