Crash Posted March 6, 2004 Share Posted March 6, 2004 Just wondering if anybody can explain the true meaning behind the "spin" of particles e.g electrons are spin 1/2, while other particles have a spin of 0,1,2 I know that the word "spin" is only the name and not an actual description.....Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skye Posted March 6, 2004 Share Posted March 6, 2004 This looks reasonably understandable: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/spin/spin.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crash Posted March 6, 2004 Author Share Posted March 6, 2004 Ah cheers dude Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apathy Posted May 29, 2004 Share Posted May 29, 2004 it's the angular momentum left over after orbital angular momentum is accounted for, it looked like spinning so they called it spin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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