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What is gravity? (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

See also: spin.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

spin is something that behaves like spin. the right answer is shut up and calculate

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

WE SPIN. WE BALL.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's mind blowing to me that particles with no inherent physical shape or dimension can be considered "spinning" not because we observe them spinning but because they have literally all the characteristics of a spinning particle other than actual rotation around an axis

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Look man everything else is spinning so why not the tiny bits too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Spin is easy, it just only shows in our current formulation of quantum mechanics, has no classical counterpart, is sort of a type of angular momentum, but isn't, whatever shut up.