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Electrons Do Not Spin
Season 7
Episode 22
Quantum mechanics has a lot of weird stuff - but there are things that everyone agrees that no one understands. I’m talking about quantum spin. Let’s find out how chasing this elusive little behavior of the electron led us to some of the deepest insights into the nature of the quantum world.
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