Come on this is not complicated. To imagine electron spin, think of a ball that is rotating. The election is the ball, except it's not really a ball, and it's not rotating either.
Electrons
Submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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DivineDev@kbin.run 11 months ago
Lumisal@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I just figured that it’s based off perspective. If you look at a spinning ball horizontally vs vertically.
Either that or is just spinning both ways at once, kinda like Earth and it’s atmosphere can go two different directions despite being the same planet.
Klear@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I think it’s more that they used an existing word for a concept that has nothing to do with its original meaning, or only in an extremely abstracted sense. Thus is certainly true of quark flavours and colour.
Running_Nose@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Trump better be doing the ballet.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Honestly physics is super simple when you realize nothing makes sense.
And I’m being completely serious. Once you actually truly realize, that the universe is just a total fuckin mess, that basically runs on the strongest luck engine there is, it all starts to make perfect sense.
Once you understand the chaos, the order begins to form.
Donkter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Physics is just us categorizing the relationships between different observed phenomena. “Explanations” are fun, and many can be true at certain scales, but getting deeper into any specific phenomenon is just a rabbit hole that leads to more and more “we don’t know why it does that, it just does and it works in our models.”
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Exactly my point!
You can’t get caught up in the why, because at our current understanding, there is no why.
There only is.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
being a fantasy novel nerd i like to think of physics as simply being our magic system.
hash0772@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Do you have some fantasy novel recommendations? I’d also like to read some but don’t know what I should read.
bbuez@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The truest knowledge is one’s doubt, thus I am, but am I?
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 11 months ago
See I don’t see it that existentially.
To me it’s more: I am therefore I am. What I am remains to be seen but still, I am.
marcos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Up and down in what direction, electron?!?
Up and down on what direction?!?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Relative to A’Tuin
smeg@feddit.uk 11 months ago
My favourite quark is the hubwise quark, closely followed by the widdershins quark
Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Actually a good point, tho. And also a good thought: If there is no special direction, what would be up? And that’s where quantum mechanics gets even weirder: It’s either up or down in the direction you measure.
i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
It’s either up or down whatever the direction.
If you measure 100%up-0%down then you rotate your frame of reference by 90°, you automatically get 50%up-50%down… (iirc)
Ziglin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
At least in the Stern-Gerlach experiment it’s relative to the magnetic field.
jjagaimo@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Yes and no
Agent641@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There might only be one, ever.
rtxn@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Mom says it’s my turn with the single universal electron!
SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Look. Time Traveling Ellie’s going to make sure everybody gets their fair share of charge. As long as we make sure she doesn’t get in her own way it’s all good.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I asked for an electron for Christmas and Grandma got me an electron NEUTRINO 🙄🙄🙄
nul@programming.dev 11 months ago
This is actually the first time I’m hearing about single electron theory, but I feel validated now that I’m learning about it. I have for a long time believed that the universe is made of a single photon, since photons exist outside of time. Then, if electrons are made of a “pair” of entangled photons, since every photon is the same photon, it would follow that every electron is also the same electron. And one could assert that quarks are just entangled electrons and positrons in various ratios and combinations. Which in my mind leads to the conclusion that all of time and space and matter doesn’t actually exist and we are just imaginary mathematical figments.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
…Here’s Tom with the weather?
nul@programming.dev 11 months ago
For the people downvoting, may I hear a counterpoint as to why this wouldn’t make sense?
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
They did the double slit experience with whole molecules comprised of 2000 atoms and it worked.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
it’s position
Yes, it is.
fatalError@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Superposition
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
All of them.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
If you don’t observe me, I behave totally differently as well.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s nothing, quarks have a fucking flavor
Zehzin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Black licorice quarks are the worse
i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Better than that artificial “puke” flavor!
voracitude@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not like from those ancient and malfunctioning replicators. Now where the hell is Rom…?
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 11 months ago
Of course. The word is borrowed from a German dairy product.
niktemadur@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh yeah?!! Well so do neutrinos!
And it has nothing to do with quarks and chromodynamics!
Here’s a grand idea: make everything as confusing as possible, with repeating terminology!
10_0@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
I love eating quantum stuff
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 11 months ago
More vanillin quarks!