And yeah, yeah, I get it, it's okay for quantum numbers to just be arbitrary "things" that have no classical analogues, the video mentions even Pauli wants me to think of spin as "classically non-describable two-valuedness", I'm usually okay with thinking this way. But if that's what spin is then *why does it impart mechanical angular momentum, literal macroscopic classical angular momentum, when you apply it correctly*?? I have always struggled to let this go and I kind of feel like I shouldn't

I ask because that way non-orientedness stops being "shocking" because orientation is an irrelevant local symmetry anyway, and I could think about the unoriented spin value as like "rotation energy".

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I also was gonna ask questions about how spin fits into LQG braid matter and "holographic" universe hypotheses but such such questions are absurd and "cranky" I think I should not try to ask them until I understand the normal one. Maybe I'll see if my PhysicsForums login still works (3/3)

Will make another go at the video today. I'm hopeful/unhopeful because when I found the videos I was like "oh thank goodness, finally someone is going to explain to me how quantum spin works" and so far their explanation for how quantum spin works is "somehow"*

* They have repeated that one word in almost every critical sentence of the video

ME: Quantum physics isn't "weird", or mystical, or unknowable in some way that means we have to abandon the scientific ideal of understanding the universe. Quantum physics follows specific mathematical rules, and it follows them rigidly; it's just the math happens to not follow our intuition of everyday objects.

PHYSICISTS: *Explain literally anything about quantum spin*

ME: This is BULLSHIT and you are MAKING IT ALL UP

Was watching a video about physics last night and at a certain point they explained the Stern-Gerlach experiment and I got so angry I had to turn it off for the night

I was going to make a joke post like "'sup y'all, just violating French trademark law" but actually I could not successfully take a photo with appropriate contrast to capture both myself and the trademark violation at the same time. I think I need "HDR". I don't think my $35 Wal-Mart burner phone has HDR. #selfie

@alys and, in fact, to incentivize them to continue making tower lights for 70 years after their death

@vikxin 2016? https://twit.social/@glennf/112655376314976379

@vikxin It ALSO turns out there is now a French freedom of panorama for noncommerical purpose

@tobychev @michaelgemar @glennf @vmstan Soy de Tejas, probablemente mi comida ya era consternando los mexicanos

@glennf @vmstan *scratching head* never before in my life have I encountered this many difficulties attempting to intentionally break the law

At least some elements of this do not appear to have been intentional

Just heard a smooth jazz version of Toto's "Africa" performed by a choir in a cathedral

@tef the drums were basically incoherent white noise due to the fact that they were trying to play jazz instrumentation in a cathedral

(the venue was changed at the actual last second due to rain)

no pipe organ. i don't think i saw an organ in the place. there was a guy with a synth piano but he was beset by the same acoustics problem as the drummer

@streganil I think this is a very interesting point. As an American in Canada it certainly feels weird to me I can't vote in the city I live in but I get to vote on the school board in a random ass town in Massachusetts

@liampomfret note I'm fudging the degree of applicability but there's no reason we have to voluntarily bring that up in a votes-for-prisoners campaign https://sfba.social/@not2b/112532277721056031

@Catawu also would put an end to the thing where putting a big prison in a congressional district means the votes of the people in that district are amplified by the population count of the prisoners who can't vote

Anybody wanna poll some Republicans real quick on how they feel about that one

Is this a good time to bring up my deeply held belief that people should be allowed to vote in elections even if they are convicted felons

Dead internet theory but for IRL