Is it literally like the electron is rotating super fast, or something more complicated?
In: Physics
to quote cgp grey
> ‘Whirl around’ and ‘spin’ dont mean what you think dowm here (at the quantum level). Down here, words are meaningless. There is just math. that we are not going to do.
there are properties of electrons that are modeled by equations. we have to call this property something so we can talk about it, and the math used is similar to the math for rotational motion, so they called it spin.
at the quantum scale, the more you try to make a visualization in your mind of what is “going on” the less accurate it is. There is just math (that we are not going to do)
Latest Answers