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I give up for today Should never have gotten myself ENTANGLED in all of this pun intended

Or wait, I think I understand a bit more now, the spin of a but then, what is the difference between the 1/2 spin of a quark and the 1 spin of a gauge boson or the 0 spin of a Higgs boson? Does this mean that the 1 spin is twice as "intense" as the 1/2 spin, and that the Higgs boson doesn't...

But let me see if I've got this right: does spin up or ℏ/2 mean that the "north pole" of the atom is pointing upwards on the z axis?

So far I've gotten this: spin up= ℏ/2, spin down=-ℏ/2 I still don't understand spin 0, spin 0.5, spin 1, spin 1.5, etc

Wait never mind, ℏ/2 can't equal spin 1/2 because that would suggest that a particles spin is determined by what particle it is

Oooooh that clarifies a lot So basically, ℏ/2=1/2 spin? But the main question I had is still something I can't wrap my head around. What does spin measure? To say that it measures angular momentum makes no sense to me, I associate that with rotation; the rate at which something rotates. I think...

my head is about to explode hahaha first off, what is the z-component and why does it equal ℏ/2? How is the Planck constant related? Also, upon reading a bit about quarks and other subatomic particles, I've discovered that the quarks and leptons have 1/2 spin. What does this mean? And what does...

I see, so does this mean that the refusals over that the electrons have angular momentum were because of that they used the classical electron model which yielded results over lightspeed, while with the new model, they ruled it in again because they didn't know the size of the electron? Because...

Really? I watched some youtube videos on the topic, they claimed that electrons having angular momentum was ruled out because of that it had to be rotating at the speed of light or something. There was another point against it that had something to do with that if electrons had it, then neutrons...

I think I need to clarify, when talking about spin, I'm not referring to angular momentum, I'm referring to the property of particles. Something like the spin of an electron, for instance. Also, is there a difference between regular spin and quantum spin?

I know that I'm kinda asking for a lot here, but can any of you give me, a person with lesser experience in physics, a basic explanation of spin? I've found out that a particle's spin can be compared to a transistor, but that didn't really tell me what it actually is. What does it define? For...