weird@sub.wetshaving.social to memes@lemmy.world · 2 months agoThis is the hardest concept to understand in physicssub.wetshaving.socialexternal-linkmessage-square109linkfedilinkarrow-up1728arrow-down16
arrow-up1722arrow-down1external-linkThis is the hardest concept to understand in physicssub.wetshaving.socialweird@sub.wetshaving.social to memes@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square109linkfedilink
minus-squareflamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·2 months 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-squarechortle_tortle@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 months agoThere are also things like Hydrogen Fine Structure , that behaves as though it is a ball that actually spins. 🤷
minus-squareAngryPancake@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months 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.