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jjoensuu
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Dear physics gurus,
here is a question I have been pondering on.
This is based on something my high school chemistry teacher once said during a discussion of "ghosts" and other spirit creatures. He said, about a statue near school, that it could not be completely ruled out that some random effect would align the spins of all the atoms in one of the statues arms, causing a part of the arm to lift upward.
For an onlooker something like this could then look like the statue was moving.
I must say that I am not qualified to determine if the alignment in spin could cause a movement of the arm, so if anyone has any pointers on that I would welcome it.
On another hand the question I wanted to ask is about how would the world look like if either of following scenarios suddenly became true:
A. the spin of all atoms of a specific type would become aligned with the spin of other atoms of the same type
B. the spin of all atoms would become aligned with each other
What kind of behavior would objects exhibit...like would everything be attracted to each other?
Thanks
here is a question I have been pondering on.
This is based on something my high school chemistry teacher once said during a discussion of "ghosts" and other spirit creatures. He said, about a statue near school, that it could not be completely ruled out that some random effect would align the spins of all the atoms in one of the statues arms, causing a part of the arm to lift upward.
For an onlooker something like this could then look like the statue was moving.
I must say that I am not qualified to determine if the alignment in spin could cause a movement of the arm, so if anyone has any pointers on that I would welcome it.
On another hand the question I wanted to ask is about how would the world look like if either of following scenarios suddenly became true:
A. the spin of all atoms of a specific type would become aligned with the spin of other atoms of the same type
B. the spin of all atoms would become aligned with each other
What kind of behavior would objects exhibit...like would everything be attracted to each other?
Thanks