Thanks to @lloydwatts60 for the design idea for the gears! Checkout his video with a wooden version and more insight into spin 1/2 (link in description)
But actually u can make "abstract image" that u will collerate with this. It's good to watch all of kinds videos on one topic and even better when u mix it with math. Because in the end it's all math :v (with some philosophy)
@@TH-camr-dq3ko The microworld has no analogous function in the macro world. Schrodinger and his cat have already pointed this out, which in fact demonstrated that the microworld cannot be projected into the macroworld. Only in sci-fi is Schrodinger's cat misunderstood when quantum properties are applied in the macroworld and endless stupidity arises.
This is my favorite action lab video. I have been thinking about electron spin for sometime now and have been showing my kids a slightly different version of 720° rotation using a plate that I hold in my hand. I rotate the plate palm up two full turns without dropping it and without twisting my arm off. The kids find it fascinating that one can do that kind of rotation.
The Stern-Gerlach-Experiment is my favourite physics experiment 😅 It was conducted by 2 germans in 1922 (Stern and Gerlach). They were actually about to give up the experiment, but then the Reichsbahn (german railway) cancelled their drive home from Frankfurt, so they gave it another shot at night. It was later found out that the experiment only worked because they smoked heavily inside the laboratory, which would be insane nowadays 😂 The smoke caused the screen to make the 2 dots visible.
@@TH-camr-dq3ko thats not the point ofc he cut the video bc how else would this happend. This is just example to show how electrons work so it doesnt matter but yes u are correct
It feels like the electron spin have some similarities to a *Mobius Strip* where you also need to complete 2 full "rotations" of the strip to return to the same side at the original position.
Might be off the mark a little but feels as though it may be something to do with fundmental characteristics of spacial dimensions. Almost non euclidean.
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These videos are always enlightening, but this one actually blew my mind at every turn! Very solid demonstrations and great editing. This is the kind of content I subscribed for.
Can you really walk around an electron if electrons don't ever sit still? 8:22 Can you show a drawing or animation about rotating apparatus and observing the wave function change?
The wave function of a particle is not an observable. The resulting interference of two particles on a detector as a result of out of phase wave functions is.
To get the point you can play the "Antichamber" - a short (relatively) indie puzzle game . It has a lot of wierd perspective, spacial, non-flat topology stuff and etc. like impossible rooms and geometry.
The way you describe this is as if it's a real physical feature of the universe. Viewers should know - it's not. It's another workaround devised by theoretical magicians to get the data to make sense. That's quantum mechanics in a nutshell. It's a very accurate tool.
Of course, I'm intelligent to understand that lol What I can't understand and why I'm probably really bad at physics in general, is HOW AN OBJECT ISN'T ROTATING, but it looks like it is. The only way for that to happen is if something is rotating or moving around the electron, giving the illusion of movement.
@@slusheewolf2143 You can't think of it in that way. For it to make sense, you must forget the classical form of a spinning object and accept it as a quantum property. -from Wikipedia: "While the question of whether elementary particles actually rotate is ambiguous (as they appear point-like), this picture is correct insofar as spin obeys the same mathematical laws as quantized angular momenta do"
If there was any other classical example that described electron angular momentum better than the word “spin”, we would probably use that and call it something other than “spin”. But calling it “spin” is still close enough to what’s going on that we use it. But just keep in mind, it’s VERY different than just the idea that the electron is spinning.
Wouldn't this indicate that there is an absolute orientation of space itself? Like the book with the belt closed in it. You move. The belt moves. The book stays the same. Therefore, only two states for particles, because they are embedded in something which maintains its orientation and has absolute position and absolute direction and therefore gives absolute vector velocity (not everything is relative).
You would think if you have to spin an electron twice to get back to the initial state that just maybe 360 degrees for you and 360 degrees for the electron are not the same. Perhaps there are more or less dimensions that an electron interacts with and that is the cause of the strangeness. As in it would take an electron longer to rotate through 4 dimensions, versus your 3.
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For anyone who wants a clarification: When you turn around the electron by 360⁰ you add something to the wavefunction that will not affect any measurement, so you will measure everything the same (for example: the spin direction, position, etc), meaning you actually CANNOT tell the difference by any means. But, if you take an electron in a superposition of two states, and rotate it by 360⁰ only in one of them, only then could you actually measure it and see it affecting measurements.
After seeing the belt trick, this may explain how easy a slinky can be tangled and now we have a way to undo what seams impossible with a double overlap. To the stairs.
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Now I am confused. The two spatial rotations required to return the electron to its original state, is to be expected in the first place, is it not ? The axis of the spin of an electron is not merely a spatial axis. The axis also extends across a certain measure of the dimension of time. So with this being a 4 dimension spin, one clearly expects exactly what you observe from a mere 3D perspective.
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This was one of you more complicated videos (for me as a layman) but with some background on magnetism (and the link with unpaired electrons in orbitals) the video is definitely comprehensible.
Analogies for understanding electrons have three things in common: they are helpful to a degree, they conflict with each other, and are fundamentally wrong. So far the only accurate description is from QFT, which is just math, and sadly doesn't easily whisper any intuitive understanding.
All analogies are accurate just to a point. I, one out of many, still find them useful as an introduction to the subject.🙂 I hope you will reconsider your view that hard learning = the best learning. Sometimes learning complicated topics can be understood in smaller, digestable parts. Otherwise, who'd learn at all? You may not have meant it, but why does your post sound like "sour grapes?" Perhaps one day QFT will become intiutive when we change our frame of reference? 😉😊 Lastly, I hope you enjoy QFT. 😊
A four-cycle engines valve timing does the same thing. Just like the four-cycle engine, the electron absorbs & releases engery from unseen particle-flow. The spin of an electron may be caused from smaller orbiting-particle systems moving around and into & out of the electron. It's always been my belief that orbiting-particle system's make up all matter, as well as all empty space, no exception to the rule. Thank you very much for this video!
Protons and Neutrons are made up of things like that, 3 Quarks bound with gluons rapidly rotating around each other. Electrons are more similar to quarks though and what your saying sounds along the lines of what string theory says.
@@storm37000 I think of the string theory as being the dynamics of an under-square vortex, where coil & un-coil create those critical balancing mechanisms that make an open-loop under-square vortex strong.
Here's something I wish someone told me when I first learned about spinors: _Spinors are not physical objects that have an orientation in geometric space._ You can stop trying to think of how an object could have this 720° symmetry, an object can't. Spinors are not physical objects. They are mathematical objects. In fact they are transformations, specifically rotations that preserve a sense of orientation. The "space" they live in, where you rotate them 720°, is their _parameter space,_ not the geometric space in which you and I live. Actually performing the transformation on any physical object will give you the usual 360° symmetry; only the numbers in the parameter space can tell the difference.
You can move your palm up side down without moving your wrist... Here's how you do it... you have to repeat this twice just like electrons... (With your right arm/hand) Step one: Face your palm upwards. Step two: Fold your elbow upwards to your face. Step three: Drop your palm to your left; across your chest. Step four: Drag your arm to the right; like a b**** slap. Step five: Bring your hand up to your face again; like a karate chop position. Step six: Drop your hand to your left; across your chest, like a Korean march. Step seven: Swing your hand to your right and you should have your palm face downwards. [Up, left, right, up, left, right.]
Think of it as a ball on a whirlpool. Once around and through, it would flip. Stuck under the water now the whirlpool point is "up". Once around and through corrects the orientation. Better yet, imagine doing a lap on a mobious strip. 1 lap places you in the same spot, or position, but flipped upsidedown. It takes 2 laps to get to the starting position and orientation. An Electron is just an eddy current at relativistic speed and size. Very compact in 3D space. Time adds the wobble as it moves across the ether in compression. This also explains spooky action and Quantum hopping. Imagine looking at the edge of a river, a slow deep part. Tiny whirlpools pop in and out of existence relative to us. It disappears but the energy is just spread out, but is still there and manifests in another location once it finds equilibrium. Sorry, I think I finally understand Quantum spin. It's easy to visualize and I'll bet everything fits. Feel free to say why not, but atoms are whirlpools, eddy currents in space. Think about the flow of space as pushing through a Mandelbrot fractal. The loops on the edge create eddy currents as space energy compacts in these spaces. Nothing lost, no friction, but less space to contain the energy. Except that curl isn't the size of the actual hole, you need to start zooming in by orders of magnitude and think about how much faster you move relative to what was the starting point. The energy of an atom bomb, vibrating at the speed of light, in stability....relative stability. We exist on the surface of the water. The very center of space. We are the center. Look down the whirlpool at the point, it is an atom spinning very fast. Now look up. Everything is spinning so slow, but same patterns. Now look across...everything is still. Existence can be observed and interacted with. We exist because of too much matter in too little space, and everything seeking equilibrium. Whirlpools of compressed matter. We exist in a "Lagrange" point of space as a whole. Observing particle spin is like sticking your finger in the whirlpool to see how it feels. It slows things slightly. Enough to collapse them. Seems legit. Thanks.
05:45 - I'd take out checkbox #3 (filling checkbox #6 in *all* cases). A Mobian strip is also a great example of how the electron behaves (180° twist). You have to go around on it twice to get back to the same point. Edit: Oddly enough, even 4-stroke engines make a good analogy too.
A fantastic analogy on the tip of the proverbial iceberg that is quantum mechanics! I had to proctor my first quantum mechanic class, this level of counter intuitive “non-relativistic”reality takes a bit of time to wrap one’s head around. So to be able to explain it simply takes some considerable effort. Hell, I remember just the introduction to quantum mechanics changed my perspective of what is “reality”. Anyway, very cool vids my dude!
Enjoyed the geared electron models, thanks. Individual full-rotation handle cycles compare closest to interactions with single photon wave cycles. What electrons do while they're occupying orbitals is not detectable. One could say orbitals (stable electron states) are compact quantum event horizons and when an electron is induced to jump between a hierarchy of event horizons with different allowed energies it has to do a relatively large and exposed re-adjustment cycle whereby a photon is emitted or absorbed. To emit and reabsorb an identical photon, while potentially avoiding detection of any jumps between states, a quick sequence of two exposed electron pirouettes is called for, two exposed electron cycles to return to the same state. A photon is basically created in the image of an exposed electron dancing probably only once around an atom, an image with a definite direction. My 2 cents there, anyway. Vacuum-energy and electron mass inertia collectively assure photon leading and trailing edge overshoot/damping, I suppose. I sincerely believe interested people could do a whole lot worse getting their information elsewhere.
Thanks! We are studying HNMR (but from Morrison and Wade book, instead of Carey wich appeared in the video 😆) and we had to study spin and how it acts inside a magnetic field.
Which is yet another more classical representation of the idea, yes :) If you imagine a mobius strip made out of transparent platic and start with an upward arrow facing you, then imagine the arrow moving 360 degrees around the loop, it will then be in the same position (facing you), but pointing down, with a further 360 degrees of movement needed to bring it back to facing you and pointing up.
Thanks to @lloydwatts60 for the design idea for the gears! Checkout his video with a wooden version and more insight into spin 1/2 (link in description)
He did a video of this a year ago.
I was thinking, "wait a minute, deja vu??"
I was thinking why haven't you mentioned about that video in your video. You put it here..
You forgot to credit PBS Spacetime for the electron spin video.
Hey copied someone on youtube but your videos reach more people.
And Science has no copyright on it . DUH!!
Electron spin be like: Imagine a ball and it’s rotating except it’s not a ball and it’s not rotating
Seems legit enough
But actually u can make "abstract image" that u will collerate with this. It's good to watch all of kinds videos on one topic and even better when u mix it with math.
Because in the end it's all math :v (with some philosophy)
Quantum mechanics in a nutshell
I imagine them as spheres of influence teleporting around an atom so fast you don't know where it is
I understand it...
The thing of the belt actually caught me completely off guard!
Check out some more Topology demonstrations! They're mind bending, truly.
I tried it myself and it caught me with my pants down.
It was quite the twist!
@@TH-camr-dq3ko yeah because its an illustration.
@@TH-camr-dq3ko The microworld has no analogous function in the macro world. Schrodinger and his cat have already pointed this out, which in fact demonstrated that the microworld cannot be projected into the macroworld. Only in sci-fi is Schrodinger's cat misunderstood when quantum properties are applied in the macroworld and endless stupidity arises.
This is my favorite action lab video. I have been thinking about electron spin for sometime now and have been showing my kids a slightly different version of 720° rotation using a plate that I hold in my hand. I rotate the plate palm up two full turns without dropping it and without twisting my arm off. The kids find it fascinating that one can do that kind of rotation.
Lol. I just acted out the rotation. That was cute. Thanks for sharing! 😊
Yep, videos about quantum are the best!
Man electrons are like the USB port
You put it straight don't fit flip it don't fit flip it again don't fit flip it again fits
Yea
I actually agree with this observation.
Bravo sir
...therefore either USB ports are made of electrons?
Or USB ports have 1/2 spin?
Maybe its not the ports, its the plugs!
My last brain cells during a test
The Stern-Gerlach-Experiment is my favourite physics experiment 😅
It was conducted by 2 germans in 1922 (Stern and Gerlach).
They were actually about to give up the experiment, but then the Reichsbahn (german railway) cancelled their drive home from Frankfurt, so they gave it another shot at night.
It was later found out that the experiment only worked because they smoked heavily inside the laboratory, which would be insane nowadays 😂
The smoke caused the screen to make the 2 dots visible.
And what makes it even more confusing, is that since Gerlach was German, he was also stern. ;-)
@@kwaherikwasasa Stern is the German word for star 😂
My favorite experiment is the Wheelers delayed-choice-quantum-eraser experiment.
nice to know..
Kudos to the people who walked around electrons to tell us about this.
😂
Ya he did cut it was so easy to see the cut
@@TH-camr-dq3ko Bruh thanks capt obvious
@@TH-camr-dq3ko thats not the point ofc he cut the video bc how else would this happend. This is just example to show how electrons work so it doesnt matter but yes u are correct
@@TH-camr-dq3ko no shit
It feels like the electron spin have some similarities to a *Mobius Strip* where you also need to complete 2 full "rotations" of the strip to return to the same side at the original position.
That is the gist of it or the mobius strip is a macro world version of a path approximated by a spinor.
Is it true
Might be off the mark a little but feels as though it may be something to do with fundmental characteristics of spacial dimensions. Almost non euclidean.
And of course because its quantum, there's no classical comparison 😅
Or like a point particles interaction with spacial dimensions, Idk it's on the edge of my comprehension 😂
They are entertaining and educational at the same time...
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Just plain awesome. As a fairly advanced scientist of 30+ years, I still always learn something refreshingly new and confounding from your videos. I love every one of them and your enthusiasm to match. I have no doubt you'll be making these for a long time to come. Thank you!... for serving us all.
@@TH-camr-dq3ko stop spamming you incel.
You make physics much more simple with easy world visuals. Thank you.
Always making amazing content.
Thank you so much ! After many years looking for a way of understanding spin it is the first time I do. Not even in my native language.
The Belt trick is amazing like all of your explanations ❤
Basically he's NileRed but it's more physics. His voice is also extremely similar to NileRed and Brandon Farris.
his voice is less annoying than Nile's
Niles voice is lower though
Almost like he is a human….spooky 😐
3:45 It helps to say if you twist the belt 720 degrees clockwise you have to go under the book clockwise as well.
The first rotation was flawless but I saw slightly in the second one. Clever cinematography. I love how you always throw a trick in there or two. 😁
Amazing expression!
Ah yes expression
Experiment xD
I love this channel... one of my best subscriptions by far!
Excellent video as always. I learn a lot from this channel. Thanks and kudos to you.
That was a very well hidden jumpcut at 1:00! The talking over hides it so well
Ikr
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These videos are always enlightening, but this one actually blew my mind at every turn! Very solid demonstrations and great editing. This is the kind of content I subscribed for.
This was extremely interesting even tough I would love to have mote insight and background to better understand it
Many times when I watch this channel, I feel I just watched some magic illusion. Amazing!
Can you really walk around an electron if electrons don't ever sit still?
8:22 Can you show a drawing or animation about rotating apparatus and observing the wave function change?
The wave function of a particle is not an observable. The resulting interference of two particles on a detector as a result of out of phase wave functions is.
To get the point you can play the "Antichamber" - a short (relatively) indie puzzle game . It has a lot of wierd perspective, spacial, non-flat topology stuff and etc. like impossible rooms and geometry.
So nice to see and understand concepts about electrons.🙏😊
0:52 & 1:30 - WITCH!
3:06 - There's no better use for an O-Chem book than to weigh down something. Good use!
The way you describe this is as if it's a real physical feature of the universe. Viewers should know - it's not. It's another workaround devised by theoretical magicians to get the data to make sense. That's quantum mechanics in a nutshell. It's a very accurate tool.
Of course, I'm intelligent to understand that lol
What I can't understand and why I'm probably really bad at physics in general, is HOW AN OBJECT ISN'T ROTATING, but it looks like it is. The only way for that to happen is if something is rotating or moving around the electron, giving the illusion of movement.
@@slusheewolf2143 You can't think of it in that way. For it to make sense, you must forget the classical form of a spinning object and accept it as a quantum property. -from Wikipedia: "While the question of whether elementary particles actually rotate is ambiguous (as they appear point-like), this picture is correct insofar as spin obeys the same mathematical laws as quantized angular momenta do"
If there was any other classical example that described electron angular momentum better than the word “spin”, we would probably use that and call it something other than “spin”. But calling it “spin” is still close enough to what’s going on that we use it. But just keep in mind, it’s VERY different than just the idea that the electron is spinning.
Exactly what I thought!
Wouldn't this indicate that there is an absolute orientation of space itself? Like the book with the belt closed in it. You move. The belt moves. The book stays the same. Therefore, only two states for particles, because they are embedded in something which maintains its orientation and has absolute position and absolute direction and therefore gives absolute vector velocity (not everything is relative).
I love this explanation on electron rotation topic
Belt twist untwist is so cool!! And I understood it!! (May try it myself tonight!!)
A pretty good description of something that is more or less impossible to describe.
You would think if you have to spin an electron twice to get back to the initial state that just maybe 360 degrees for you and 360 degrees for the electron are not the same. Perhaps there are more or less dimensions that an electron interacts with and that is the cause of the strangeness. As in it would take an electron longer to rotate through 4 dimensions, versus your 3.
Great thought 👍
I don't think dimensions work like that
8:49 wow this is relativity all over again I love it!
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I thought those controversies were cleared up while ago?
@@hannahbloom I don't know much about that 😅 cleared as in?
@@hannahbloom idk about controveries, but who would pay 90$ a week for what most health insurance will cover elsewhere.
So... Nobody's gonna appreciate his video editing skills?
No, I found the splice !
I swear, I never watched a better video explaining the behaviour of electrons
This is the best video so far explaining electron spin
I enjoyed the editing SO MUCH!!!
1:09 was a jumpcut, but it was so seamless, I hardly noticed
I wish video games loaded cutscenes and new maps like that
sorry, but rendering doesnt work like that
@@citratune7830 can you explain to me why?
That cube animation, wow -))
the level of the topics is getting deeper and more interesting every time
For anyone who wants a clarification:
When you turn around the electron by 360⁰ you add something to the wavefunction that will not affect any measurement, so you will measure everything the same (for example: the spin direction, position, etc), meaning you actually CANNOT tell the difference by any means.
But, if you take an electron in a superposition of two states, and rotate it by 360⁰ only in one of them, only then could you actually measure it and see it affecting measurements.
the reason is perfect time stopping and smartness and timed talking.
thats the trick breh
After seeing the belt trick, this may explain how easy a slinky can be tangled and now we have a way to undo what seams impossible with a double overlap. To the stairs.
My brain exploded with madness when I saw the belt illustrations. And that's not even me exaggerating. Right on!!!
I love that you mentioned the The Stern-Gerlach experiment, and your insightful question and answers at the end! They were perfect follow up questions! Please continue to add questions and answers that reveal a deeper understanding to all your videos!❤❤❤👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Now I am confused. The two spatial rotations required to return the electron to its original state, is to be expected in the first place, is it not ? The axis of the spin of an electron is not merely a spatial axis. The axis also extends across a certain measure of the dimension of time. So with this being a 4 dimension spin, one clearly expects exactly what you observe from a mere 3D perspective.
The t-shirt you wear being on point with the subject, love the details you put in your videos !
Those are some clean jump cuts. Bravo!
Dude just blew my mind! 4:45
Nice…. Truly creative ways of demonstrating the difficult to demonstrate
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You are simply fantastic ! Thanks a lot for all the extremely creative videos you make.
That same Technic is used in Tank Turrets. That's how the turret can rotate a full 360 degrees and and the wiring doesn't get wrapped up
Interesting real world application. Thanks. Old UK duffer here :)
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@@Pimps-R-us Hi :)
Very good illustrations. Thanks!
This was one of you more complicated videos (for me as a layman) but with some background on magnetism (and the link with unpaired electrons in orbitals) the video is definitely comprehensible.
Analogies for understanding electrons have three things in common: they are helpful to a degree, they conflict with each other, and are fundamentally wrong.
So far the only accurate description is from QFT, which is just math, and sadly doesn't easily whisper any intuitive understanding.
All analogies are accurate just to a point. I, one out of many, still find them useful as an introduction to the subject.🙂 I hope you will reconsider your view that hard learning = the best learning. Sometimes learning complicated topics can be understood in smaller, digestable parts. Otherwise, who'd learn at all?
You may not have meant it, but why does your post sound like "sour grapes?" Perhaps one day QFT will become intiutive when we change our frame of reference? 😉😊 Lastly, I hope you enjoy QFT. 😊
I think that was a splendid explanation. Thanks for putting this on here.
you: what happens when you spin electrons
me: electricity
A four-cycle engines valve timing does the same thing. Just like the four-cycle engine, the electron absorbs & releases engery from unseen particle-flow. The spin of an electron may be caused from smaller orbiting-particle systems moving around and into & out of the electron. It's always been my belief that orbiting-particle system's make up all matter, as well as all empty space, no exception to the rule. Thank you very much for this video!
Protons and Neutrons are made up of things like that, 3 Quarks bound with gluons rapidly rotating around each other. Electrons are more similar to quarks though and what your saying sounds along the lines of what string theory says.
@@storm37000 I think of the string theory as being the dynamics of an under-square vortex, where coil & un-coil create those critical balancing mechanisms that make an open-loop under-square vortex strong.
I find it really cool that you're doing mental health sponsors in a science channel, keep up the great work!
Here's something I wish someone told me when I first learned about spinors: _Spinors are not physical objects that have an orientation in geometric space._ You can stop trying to think of how an object could have this 720° symmetry, an object can't.
Spinors are not physical objects. They are mathematical objects. In fact they are transformations, specifically rotations that preserve a sense of orientation. The "space" they live in, where you rotate them 720°, is their _parameter space,_ not the geometric space in which you and I live. Actually performing the transformation on any physical object will give you the usual 360° symmetry; only the numbers in the parameter space can tell the difference.
Belt trick is insane. This man always gives the fact.
Best visual assumption of electron spin on the Internet.
You can move your palm up side down without moving your wrist...
Here's how you do it... you have to repeat this twice just like electrons...
(With your right arm/hand)
Step one: Face your palm upwards.
Step two: Fold your elbow upwards to your face.
Step three: Drop your palm to your left; across your chest.
Step four: Drag your arm to the right; like a b**** slap.
Step five: Bring your hand up to your face again; like a karate chop position.
Step six: Drop your hand to your left; across your chest, like a Korean march.
Step seven: Swing your hand to your right and you should have your palm face downwards.
[Up, left, right, up, left, right.]
This is also called the Dirac belt trick. This Is a really nice demonstration!!
book and belt trick blew my mind.
Your videos are soooo awesome.......and really useful ..thank you sooo much for your videos we all love u alot..😊😊😊🥰🤩
Think of it as a ball on a whirlpool. Once around and through, it would flip. Stuck under the water now the whirlpool point is "up". Once around and through corrects the orientation.
Better yet, imagine doing a lap on a mobious strip. 1 lap places you in the same spot, or position, but flipped upsidedown. It takes 2 laps to get to the starting position and orientation.
An Electron is just an eddy current at relativistic speed and size. Very compact in 3D space. Time adds the wobble as it moves across the ether in compression.
This also explains spooky action and Quantum hopping. Imagine looking at the edge of a river, a slow deep part. Tiny whirlpools pop in and out of existence relative to us. It disappears but the energy is just spread out, but is still there and manifests in another location once it finds equilibrium.
Sorry, I think I finally understand Quantum spin. It's easy to visualize and I'll bet everything fits. Feel free to say why not, but atoms are whirlpools, eddy currents in space. Think about the flow of space as pushing through a Mandelbrot fractal. The loops on the edge create eddy currents as space energy compacts in these spaces. Nothing lost, no friction, but less space to contain the energy.
Except that curl isn't the size of the actual hole, you need to start zooming in by orders of magnitude and think about how much faster you move relative to what was the starting point. The energy of an atom bomb, vibrating at the speed of light, in stability....relative stability.
We exist on the surface of the water. The very center of space. We are the center. Look down the whirlpool at the point, it is an atom spinning very fast. Now look up. Everything is spinning so slow, but same patterns. Now look across...everything is still. Existence can be observed and interacted with.
We exist because of too much matter in too little space, and everything seeking equilibrium. Whirlpools of compressed matter. We exist in a "Lagrange" point of space as a whole.
Observing particle spin is like sticking your finger in the whirlpool to see how it feels. It slows things slightly. Enough to collapse them.
Seems legit.
Thanks.
4:30 animations are by Jason Hise.
4:55 "Have you ever felt there was something interfering with your happiness?" Um...well...yeah. And I think you know what that is.
Sir thanks for making this channel.
That belt trick was quite the twist!
05:45 - I'd take out checkbox #3 (filling checkbox #6 in *all* cases).
A Mobian strip is also a great example of how the electron behaves (180° twist). You have to go around on it twice to get back to the same point.
Edit: Oddly enough, even 4-stroke engines make a good analogy too.
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That was impressive as always. Thank u
Thanks! next time I happen go around an electron I'll keep this in mind
Amaizing explaination bro.
A fantastic analogy on the tip of the proverbial iceberg that is quantum mechanics! I had to proctor my first quantum mechanic class, this level of counter intuitive “non-relativistic”reality takes a bit of time to wrap one’s head around. So to be able to explain it simply takes some considerable effort. Hell, I remember just the introduction to quantum mechanics changed my perspective of what is “reality”. Anyway, very cool vids my dude!
This used to bugged me in High School. Thanks for the explaination.
Genius as always
Wow that is so amazing
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This guy is so informative
Enjoyed the geared electron models, thanks. Individual full-rotation handle cycles compare closest to interactions with single photon wave cycles.
What electrons do while they're occupying orbitals is not detectable. One could say orbitals (stable electron states) are compact quantum event horizons and when an electron is induced to jump between a hierarchy of event horizons with different allowed energies it has to do a relatively large and exposed re-adjustment cycle whereby a photon is emitted or absorbed. To emit and reabsorb an identical photon, while potentially avoiding detection of any jumps between states, a quick sequence of two exposed electron pirouettes is called for, two exposed electron cycles to return to the same state. A photon is basically created in the image of an exposed electron dancing probably only once around an atom, an image with a definite direction. My 2 cents there, anyway. Vacuum-energy and electron mass inertia collectively assure photon leading and trailing edge overshoot/damping, I suppose. I sincerely believe interested people could do a whole lot worse getting their information elsewhere.
Thanks! We are studying HNMR (but from Morrison and Wade book, instead of Carey wich appeared in the video 😆) and we had to study spin and how it acts inside a magnetic field.
Like a particle Möbius loop.
Which is yet another more classical representation of the idea, yes :) If you imagine a mobius strip made out of transparent platic and start with an upward arrow facing you, then imagine the arrow moving 360 degrees around the loop, it will then be in the same position (facing you), but pointing down, with a further 360 degrees of movement needed to bring it back to facing you and pointing up.
Belt trick awesome Gears awesome explanation .
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the trick of the white ball
Excellent. I would like to see the spinning cube (4:32) in more detail. It was too fast to see what was happening.
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those animations blew my mind
This was lovely
Most interesting video yet👍🏻😉😊