I never understood why electrons have spin... until now!

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  @Picasso_Picante92 · 2 years ago

  59. I am 59 years old. Studied physics in high school and university. Read many many popular science books written by all the greats. And in 15 minutes you helped me understand something that never ever made sense to me. Thank you dear friend. You have a new subscriber.

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  @nealharder · 2 years ago

  I love how he refers to experiments that "we" have done, referring to us, team humans, and he's so excited to be on that team!!!  Go us!!!! We can do incredible things!!!!

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  @Engineer_Lawrence · 7 months ago

  Mahesh censoring his bald spot after the chair turn is hilarious🤣🤣🤣🤣

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• SU

  @Summerisle1961 · 2 years ago

  I love your conversations with Einstein/Feynman etc. They really bring the concepts to life.

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  @jamesh318 · 3 years ago (edited)

  This is a very good explanation.<br><br>As an old physicist I can say, I wish we had these powers of visualization decades ago. It took me years to establish a mental model for electron spin, and you’ve done it in a few minutes! To be fair, there was a lot more mathematics involved but an intuitive model is super useful.<br><br>Perhaps you can explore this further by talking about some of the experiments that established the existence of the electron and its spin and magnetic nature.

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• AA

  @aarushgamer5817 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Tbh I&apos;ve never seen someone who explains so complex things in such an easy and interesting manner.. your intuitive models just make things a lot better!!

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• SH

  @shivukumar2564 · 2 years ago

  YouTube algorithm has finally understood me.

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• DA

  @dairaht · 2 years ago

  I love this guy, I genuinely NEED to see a gold play button somewhere in the background somewhere in the near future.

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• JA

  @jamesblossom-y1u · 1 year ago

  Thank you! &nbsp;I have studied physics for 45 years by reading books attending lectures, and asking particle physicists that I worked with at Los Alamos. The usual answer was &quot;you wouldn&apos;t understand.&apos; &nbsp;Now you have given me a perspective by actually explaining it. &nbsp;As simple as that.

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• MA

  @maxteer2800 · 1 year ago

  Love this. No fluff, no gimmicks, no editing. Just thoughtful conversation and exposition

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• BR

  @brucehilton1662 · 3 years ago (edited)

  I was a practicing magnetic resonance spectroscopist in my career, and taught courses that focused on spin dynamics. &nbsp;So it&apos;s not an &nbsp;unfamitiar subject to me. &nbsp;Even so, Ifound your presentation insightful and pleasing. &nbsp; Good work.

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  @hamuArt · 1 year ago

  I’m not a physicist, but my father studied metallurgical engineering in the early 1970s, and he owned the complete works of Feynman translated into Hungarian. As a teenager in high school, I enjoyed reading them because they explained concepts in an accessible way—something even many university professors struggled to do at the time (maybe nowadays too).<br><br>On a related note, I remember Edward Teller giving a lecture at ELTE University in the 1990s. What was astonishing was how this generation (Teller, Feynman) were not only excellent speakers but also exceptionally skilled at making highly complex physics understandable to laypeople.

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