Central to any quantum mechanics course is the concept of electron “spin,” but what, exactly, is spinning is never made clear. Wolfgang Pauli, one of the concept’s originators, at first rejected the idea, because if the electron has a finite radius, then the surface would be spinning faster than the speed of light. On the other hand, if you view the electron as a point particle, how are you to imagine something without a radius spinning?
Duhh. Standard Rotter confusion.
Thursday, August 04, 2011
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End of story. 1922. Tecs still swimming around in his confusion.
Quantum, schmantum. So what's spin, then? Rothman (the guy at Princeton) doesn't seem to know. Then again, he went to UT Austin. What do they know about Physics down there?
All finko paggots in Austin.
Austin, College Station: it's like, Minsk, Pinsk. Especially for someone like me, who never set foot in Texas. Of course, I was never invited to go down there...
Austin & College Station aren't really like "Minsk, Pinsk".... More like "Leningrad, Stalingrad".
No. More like Cambridge, Shreveport.
So you guys been to both places?
Yes, but nowhere to the extent Herr Rott has.
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