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This Physicist Says Electrons Spin in Quantum Physics After All. Here's Why - ScienceAlert

This Physicist Says Electrons Spin in Quantum Physics After All. Here's Why - ScienceAlert

This Physicist Says Electrons Spin in Quantum Physics After All. Here's Why - ScienceAlert
Jan 27, 2023 50 secs

For the better part of a century, physicists have wrestled with the results of experiments that suggest the smallest pieces of reality don't look or behave anything like objects in our everyday lives.

Like a whirling cue ball colliding with the inner wall of a billiard table, it carries angular momentum and influences the direction of a moving particle.

To make the basic nature of matter even harder to picture, consider the fact an electron's size is so small that it effectively lacks volume.

As he explained in a 2019 article featured in Aeon magazine: "Sometimes progress in physics requires first backing up to reexamine, reinterpret, and revise the theories that we already have."

But by focusing on the field aspects of a spread-out electron, he feels any solutions would make more sense than issues that arise from particles of infinite confinement.

It's become a saying synonymous with the aphantasic landscape of the quantum realm, where imagery and metaphor fail to compete with the uncanny precision of pure mathematics.

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