{"id":156556,"date":"2023-01-29T01:24:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T07:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/this-physicist-says-electrons-spin-in-quantum-physics-after-all-heres-why"},"modified":"2023-01-29T01:24:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T07:24:56","slug":"this-physicist-says-electrons-spin-in-quantum-physics-after-all-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/this-physicist-says-electrons-spin-in-quantum-physics-after-all-heres-why","title":{"rendered":"This Physicist Says Electrons Spin in Quantum Physics After All. Here\u2019s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-physicist-says-electrons-spin-in-quantum-physics-after-all-heres-why2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Spin\u2019 is a fundamental quality of fundamental particles like the electron, invoking images of a tiny sphere revolving rapidly on its axis like a planet in a shrunken solar system.<\/p>\n<p>Only it isn\u2019t. It can\u2019t. For one thing, electrons aren\u2019t spheres of matter but points described by the mathematics of probability.<\/p>\n<p>But California Institute of Technology philosopher of physics Charles T. Sebens argues such a particle-based approach to one of the most accurate theories in physics might be misleading us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Spin\u2019 is a fundamental quality of fundamental particles like the electron, invoking images of a tiny sphere revolving rapidly on its axis like a planet in a shrunken solar system. Only it isn\u2019t. It can\u2019t. For one thing, electrons aren\u2019t spheres of matter but points described by the mathematics of probability. But California Institute of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,48,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156556","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}