{"id":236418,"date":"2026-05-03T11:07:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T16:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/electrons-do-not-spin"},"modified":"2026-05-03T11:07:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T16:07:35","slug":"electrons-do-not-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/electrons-do-not-spin","title":{"rendered":"Electrons DO NOT Spin"},"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\/pWlk1gLkF2Y?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 \/> \/ pbsspacetime.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum mechanics has a lot of weird stuff \u2014 but there\u2019s thing that everyone agrees that no one understands. I\u2019m talking about quantum spin. Let\u2019s find out how chasing this elusive little behavior of the electron led us to some of the deepest insights into the nature of the quantum world.<\/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!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/1a6eb8f2717d\/space\">https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/1a6eb8f2717d\/space<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Matt O\u2019Dowd<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/electrons-do-not-spin\">Continue reading \u201cElectrons DO NOT Spin\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! \/ pbsspacetime. Quantum mechanics has a lot of weird stuff \u2014 but there\u2019s thing that everyone agrees that no one understands. I\u2019m talking about quantum spin. Let\u2019s find out how chasing this elusive little behavior of the electron led us to some 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":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236418","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=236418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}