Until now I only learned an electron cannot be spinning in the classical sense, because it would have to be spinning faster than the speed of light (plus ‘spin 1/2’ has no classical sense.) This made me assume quantum ‘angular momentum’ sums to magnetism instead-of and without classical angular momentum.

  • MüThyme@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    We often describe that as “intrinsic angular momentum” it’s not spinning, but it kind of is