Uploaded September 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Small particles like protons, neutrons, and electrons are often shown to be spinning on an axis like a planet, but this simply cannot be the case. Quantum mechanical spin is actually an intrinsic property like charge, so how does that work?
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Spin - Mikayla Eckel Cifrese:
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