{"id":130221,"date":"2021-11-08T06:23:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T14:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/how-electron-spin-makes-matter-possible"},"modified":"2021-11-08T06:23:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T14:23:37","slug":"how-electron-spin-makes-matter-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/how-electron-spin-makes-matter-possible","title":{"rendered":"How Electron Spin Makes Matter Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EK_6OzZAh5k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pbsspacetime\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pbsspacetime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today I\u2019m going to explain why you\u2019re not falling through your chair right now using one simple fact, and one object. The fact is that all electrons are the same as each other, and the object is a structurally critical item of my clothing. There\u2019s a chance this episode could get very weird.<\/p>\n<p>Electrons DO NOT Spin.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Electrons DO NOT Spin\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pWlk1gLkF2Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Spin Renderings by the Incredible Jason Hise.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/entropygames.net\/\">http:\/\/entropygames.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out the Space Time Merch Store.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbsspacetime.com\/shop\">https:\/\/www.pbsspacetime.com\/shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the mailing list to get episode notifications and hear special announcements!<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/how-electron-spin-makes-matter-possible\">Continue reading \u201cHow Electron Spin Makes Matter Possible\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pbsspacetime. Today I\u2019m going to explain why you\u2019re not falling through your chair right now using one simple fact, and one object. The fact is that all electrons are the same as each other, and the object is a structurally critical item of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}