Electrons do not spin

in blurtscience •  3 years ago 

This is actually quite good, and the presenter tries really hard to avoid any quantum woo, even to the point of leaving some unanswered questions... unanswered. That's physics for you!

The concept of "electron spin" has kept the same words just because it is always describing the same phenomenon, even though its definition has changed quite dramatically over the decades. Without understanding the mathematics of spinors, the general reader is left with a rather vague idea of a spinning ball that is neither spinning nor a ball. But fermion spin is important as it appears to be the source of what we know as magnetism.

This mind meltdown should at least show the interested public that physics has come a long way from being "materialistic"; always makes me laugh when I read people who think that's some new discovery. Physics has not been materialistic for at least 150 years; indeed we can even go back to Newton's gravitation as "action at a distance". Physics does, however, remain physical and phenomenological, otherwise it is metaphysics. The very structure of our mathematical expressions leads to metaphysical speculations about their underlying reality, but they still require some form of reality-checking, such as an experiment, to narrow down the speculative universe.

This also holds true for human consciousness and human biology. Going deeply into biophysics, we find that humans are also largely immaterial.

Materialism is largely a political philosophy designed to dupe most people into thinking they are robots - and that "progress" should aim towards becoming better robots.

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