What Does An Electron Look Like When You Rotate It?

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  • Опубліковано 26 лис 2021
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  • @TheActionLab
    @TheActionLab  2 роки тому +235

    Thanks to @lloydwatts60 for the design idea for the gears! Checkout his video with a wooden version and more insight into spin 1/2 (link in description)

    • @VideoMakesMeHappy
      @VideoMakesMeHappy 2 роки тому +8

      He did a video of this a year ago.

    • @patrybc8843
      @patrybc8843 2 роки тому +8

      I was thinking, "wait a minute, deja vu??"

    • @pratikdedhia
      @pratikdedhia 2 роки тому +6

      I was thinking why haven't you mentioned about that video in your video. You put it here..

    • @Dismythed
      @Dismythed 2 роки тому +4

      You forgot to credit PBS Spacetime for the electron spin video.

    • @VideoUpload_007
      @VideoUpload_007 2 роки тому

      Hey copied someone on youtube but your videos reach more people.
      And Science has no copyright on it . DUH!!

  • @ShortHax
    @ShortHax 2 роки тому +1236

    Electron spin be like: Imagine a ball and it’s rotating except it’s not a ball and it’s not rotating

    • @TheUnderscore_
      @TheUnderscore_ 2 роки тому +41

      Seems legit enough

    • @Hecarim420
      @Hecarim420 2 роки тому +17

      But actually u can make "abstract image" that u will collerate with this. It's good to watch all of kinds videos on one topic and even better when u mix it with math.
      Because in the end it's all math :v (with some philosophy)

    • @riccardob9026
      @riccardob9026 2 роки тому +33

      Quantum mechanics in a nutshell

    • @Flesh_Wizard
      @Flesh_Wizard 2 роки тому +10

      I imagine them as spheres of influence teleporting around an atom so fast you don't know where it is

    • @frenzygaming1
      @frenzygaming1 2 роки тому +1

      I understand it...

  • @CaravaggioRoma
    @CaravaggioRoma 2 роки тому +516

    The thing of the belt actually caught me completely off guard!

    • @JoeySonal
      @JoeySonal 2 роки тому +17

      Check out some more Topology demonstrations! They're mind bending, truly.

    • @trigonzobob
      @trigonzobob 2 роки тому +42

      I tried it myself and it caught me with my pants down.

    • @iloveplasticbottles
      @iloveplasticbottles 2 роки тому +14

      It was quite the twist!

    • @darthdr3
      @darthdr3 2 роки тому +3

      @@UA-camr-dq3ko yeah because its an illustration.

    • @DL-kc8fc
      @DL-kc8fc 2 роки тому +2

      @@UA-camr-dq3ko The microworld has no analogous function in the macro world. Schrodinger and his cat have already pointed this out, which in fact demonstrated that the microworld cannot be projected into the macroworld. Only in sci-fi is Schrodinger's cat misunderstood when quantum properties are applied in the macroworld and endless stupidity arises.

  • @huawafabe
    @huawafabe 2 роки тому +78

    The Stern-Gerlach-Experiment is my favourite physics experiment 😅
    It was conducted by 2 germans in 1922 (Stern and Gerlach).
    They were actually about to give up the experiment, but then the Reichsbahn (german railway) cancelled their drive home from Frankfurt, so they gave it another shot at night.
    It was later found out that the experiment only worked because they smoked heavily inside the laboratory, which would be insane nowadays 😂
    The smoke caused the screen to make the 2 dots visible.

    • @kwaherikwasasa
      @kwaherikwasasa 2 роки тому +3

      And what makes it even more confusing, is that since Gerlach was German, he was also stern. ;-)

    • @huawafabe
      @huawafabe 2 роки тому +2

      @@kwaherikwasasa Stern is the German word for star 😂

    • @jareknowak8712
      @jareknowak8712 2 роки тому

      My favorite experiment is the Wheelers delayed-choice-quantum-eraser experiment.

    • @sudhakarg8921
      @sudhakarg8921 2 роки тому

      nice to know..

  • @elNathNY
    @elNathNY 2 роки тому +94

    This is my favorite action lab video. I have been thinking about electron spin for sometime now and have been showing my kids a slightly different version of 720° rotation using a plate that I hold in my hand. I rotate the plate palm up two full turns without dropping it and without twisting my arm off. The kids find it fascinating that one can do that kind of rotation.

    • @kanib.7928
      @kanib.7928 2 роки тому +4

      Lol. I just acted out the rotation. That was cute. Thanks for sharing! 😊

    • @jareknowak8712
      @jareknowak8712 2 роки тому

      Yep, videos about quantum are the best!

  • @self-proclaimedanimator
    @self-proclaimedanimator 2 роки тому +170

    Man electrons are like the USB port
    You put it straight don't fit flip it don't fit flip it again don't fit flip it again fits

    • @frenzygaming1
      @frenzygaming1 2 роки тому +4

      Yea

    • @Owen_loves_Butters
      @Owen_loves_Butters 2 роки тому +4

      @@UA-camr-dq3ko Just a simulation

    • @edfinite7534
      @edfinite7534 2 роки тому +2

      I actually agree with this observation.

    • @SaxonRanger94
      @SaxonRanger94 2 роки тому

      Bravo sir

    • @MichaelClark-uw7ex
      @MichaelClark-uw7ex 2 роки тому +2

      ...therefore either USB ports are made of electrons?
      Or USB ports have 1/2 spin?
      Maybe its not the ports, its the plugs!

  • @sebbes333
    @sebbes333 2 роки тому +103

    It feels like the electron spin have some similarities to a *Mobius Strip* where you also need to complete 2 full "rotations" of the strip to return to the same side at the original position.

    • @krisreddish3066
      @krisreddish3066 2 роки тому +20

      That is the gist of it or the mobius strip is a macro world version of a path approximated by a spinor.

    • @anupgautam2849
      @anupgautam2849 2 роки тому +1

      Is it true

    • @jesserobinson9674
      @jesserobinson9674 2 роки тому +1

      Might be off the mark a little but feels as though it may be something to do with fundmental characteristics of spacial dimensions. Almost non euclidean.

    • @jesserobinson9674
      @jesserobinson9674 2 роки тому

      And of course because its quantum, there's no classical comparison 😅

    • @jesserobinson9674
      @jesserobinson9674 2 роки тому

      Or like a point particles interaction with spacial dimensions, Idk it's on the edge of my comprehension 😂

  • @shadow_entity9191
    @shadow_entity9191 2 роки тому +198

    Kudos to the people who walked around electrons to tell us about this.

    • @chandraguptsingh7305
      @chandraguptsingh7305 2 роки тому +4

      😂

    • @TBPlayz902
      @TBPlayz902 2 роки тому +2

      Ya he did cut it was so easy to see the cut

    • @SoapMcCallister
      @SoapMcCallister 2 роки тому +1

      @@UA-camr-dq3ko Bruh thanks capt obvious

    • @rxqzl9263
      @rxqzl9263 2 роки тому +1

      @@UA-camr-dq3ko thats not the point ofc he cut the video bc how else would this happend. This is just example to show how electrons work so it doesnt matter but yes u are correct

    • @knyt0
      @knyt0 2 роки тому

      @@UA-camr-dq3ko no shit

  • @imbatman62
    @imbatman62 2 роки тому +161

    They are entertaining and educational at the same time...

  • @metamind3863
    @metamind3863 2 роки тому +37

    Just plain awesome. As a fairly advanced scientist of 30+ years, I still always learn something refreshingly new and confounding from your videos. I love every one of them and your enthusiasm to match. I have no doubt you'll be making these for a long time to come. Thank you!... for serving us all.

    • @DerpMuse
      @DerpMuse 2 роки тому

      @@UA-camr-dq3ko stop spamming you incel.

  • @tsmith906
    @tsmith906 2 роки тому +18

    You make physics much more simple with easy world visuals. Thank you.

  • @lamao8190
    @lamao8190 2 роки тому +24

    The Belt trick is amazing like all of your explanations ❤

  • @reviewguru5457
    @reviewguru5457 2 роки тому +31

    Always making amazing content.

  • @Kislashe
    @Kislashe 2 роки тому +8

    Thank you so much ! After many years looking for a way of understanding spin it is the first time I do. Not even in my native language.

  • @user-hnjga8is1zr6u
    @user-hnjga8is1zr6u 2 роки тому +23

    Basically he's NileRed but it's more physics. His voice is also extremely similar to NileRed and Brandon Farris.

  • @GooogleGoglee
    @GooogleGoglee 2 роки тому +17

    This was extremely interesting even tough I would love to have mote insight and background to better understand it

  • @drakonyanazkar
    @drakonyanazkar 2 роки тому +1

    These videos are always enlightening, but this one actually blew my mind at every turn! Very solid demonstrations and great editing. This is the kind of content I subscribed for.

  • @kanib.7928
    @kanib.7928 2 роки тому

    I love that you mentioned the The Stern-Gerlach experiment, and your insightful question and answers at the end! They were perfect follow up questions! Please continue to add questions and answers that reveal a deeper understanding to all your videos!❤❤❤👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

  • @GB-ty2uc
    @GB-ty2uc 2 роки тому +9

    So nice to see and understand concepts about electrons.🙏😊

  • @o04n7h0n90o
    @o04n7h0n90o 2 роки тому +6

    I love this channel... one of my best subscriptions by far!

  • @caepohbasics3925
    @caepohbasics3925 2 роки тому +5

    3:45 It helps to say if you twist the belt 720 degrees clockwise you have to go under the book clockwise as well.

  • @deviles
    @deviles 2 роки тому +6

    That was a very well hidden jumpcut at 1:00! The talking over hides it so well

  • @CanadaBud23
    @CanadaBud23 2 роки тому +4

    The first rotation was flawless but I saw slightly in the second one. Clever cinematography. I love how you always throw a trick in there or two. 😁

  • @stevestarcke
    @stevestarcke 10 місяців тому +1

    Excellent video as always. I learn a lot from this channel. Thanks and kudos to you.

  • @Tom-sp3gy
    @Tom-sp3gy 2 роки тому +1

    You are simply fantastic ! Thanks a lot for all the extremely creative videos you make.

  • @zeroroguer
    @zeroroguer 2 місяці тому

    Very good illustrations. Thanks!

  • @lightningwolf5157
    @lightningwolf5157 2 роки тому

    That was a really cool way to explain it ❤️ you should do more of this

  • @life0adventurer
    @life0adventurer 2 роки тому +33

    Amazing expression!

  • @cliffmathew
    @cliffmathew 2 роки тому +4

    Many times when I watch this channel, I feel I just watched some magic illusion. Amazing!

  • @philjamieson5572
    @philjamieson5572 2 роки тому

    I think that was a splendid explanation. Thanks for putting this on here.

  • @victormultanen1981
    @victormultanen1981 2 роки тому +1

    I love this explanation on electron rotation topic

  • @vossti
    @vossti 2 роки тому

    Soo informative!. Thanks champ!!

  • @niravdarmesh5278
    @niravdarmesh5278 2 роки тому

    I enjoyed the editing SO MUCH!!!

  • @MitzvosGolem1
    @MitzvosGolem1 2 роки тому

    Belt trick awesome Gears awesome explanation .
    Love you channel!

  • @alexk.4195
    @alexk.4195 2 роки тому +2

    To get the point you can play the "Antichamber" - a short (relatively) indie puzzle game . It has a lot of wierd perspective, spacial, non-flat topology stuff and etc. like impossible rooms and geometry.

  • @eliys5982
    @eliys5982 2 роки тому

    The t-shirt you wear being on point with the subject, love the details you put in your videos !

  • @Entity_BlackRed777
    @Entity_BlackRed777 2 роки тому +1

    Belt twist untwist is so cool!! And I understood it!! (May try it myself tonight!!)

  • @abiralkc7398
    @abiralkc7398 2 роки тому +1

    Your videos are soooo awesome.......and really useful ..thank you sooo much for your videos we all love u alot..😊😊😊🥰🤩

  • @rakeshsuthar6631
    @rakeshsuthar6631 2 роки тому

    I really like your videos, everytime a unique concept.😍

  • @jasontowns5119
    @jasontowns5119 2 роки тому

    That was impressive as always. Thank u

  • @stevenborgogna
    @stevenborgogna 2 роки тому

    Those are some clean jump cuts. Bravo!

  • @justmemyselfandi5532
    @justmemyselfandi5532 2 роки тому

    thx m8... great information!!!

  • @s.m.margubashraffahad369
    @s.m.margubashraffahad369 2 роки тому

    Amaizing explaination bro.

  • @Youssef_Salmane
    @Youssef_Salmane 2 роки тому

    This is the best video so far explaining electron spin

  • @7teven8onn
    @7teven8onn 3 місяці тому

    Nice…. Truly creative ways of demonstrating the difficult to demonstrate

  • @haraldschubert1570
    @haraldschubert1570 2 роки тому

    Most interesting video yet👍🏻😉😊

  • @Lucas-nu4du
    @Lucas-nu4du 2 роки тому

    Thanks! We are studying HNMR (but from Morrison and Wade book, instead of Carey wich appeared in the video 😆) and we had to study spin and how it acts inside a magnetic field.

  • @Scrungge
    @Scrungge 2 роки тому

    This was one of you more complicated videos (for me as a layman) but with some background on magnetism (and the link with unpaired electrons in orbitals) the video is definitely comprehensible.

  • @macdietz
    @macdietz 2 роки тому

    Very cool visual example

  • @Nefville
    @Nefville 2 роки тому +18

    You would think if you have to spin an electron twice to get back to the initial state that just maybe 360 degrees for you and 360 degrees for the electron are not the same. Perhaps there are more or less dimensions that an electron interacts with and that is the cause of the strangeness. As in it would take an electron longer to rotate through 4 dimensions, versus your 3.

    • @Dil.7
      @Dil.7 2 роки тому +1

      Great thought 👍

    • @zbarba
      @zbarba 2 роки тому +1

      I don't think dimensions work like that

  • @nusakara
    @nusakara 2 роки тому +1

    That cube animation, wow -))

  • @jamescyriac1771
    @jamescyriac1771 2 роки тому

    Just subscribed...great content...

  • @jeanilyntamayo8251
    @jeanilyntamayo8251 2 роки тому +1

    Wow that is so amazing

  • @ahmedalmurshidi2638
    @ahmedalmurshidi2638 2 роки тому

    Thank you so much sir

  • @dragonuv620
    @dragonuv620 2 роки тому +12

    As usual the video is great! But the sponsor for this video has had a lot of controversies and scandals attatched to it. I hope you have looked at their background before telling your audience about them. Otherwise a great video!

    • @hannahbloom
      @hannahbloom 2 роки тому

      I thought those controversies were cleared up while ago?

    • @dragonuv620
      @dragonuv620 2 роки тому

      @@hannahbloom I don't know much about that 😅 cleared as in?

    • @storm37000
      @storm37000 2 роки тому

      @@hannahbloom idk about controveries, but who would pay 90$ a week for what most health insurance will cover elsewhere.

  • @spencer1980
    @spencer1980 2 роки тому

    This was lovely

  • @prabhsidhu2186
    @prabhsidhu2186 2 роки тому

    Sir thanks for making this channel.

  • @dheeraj3945
    @dheeraj3945 2 роки тому +1

    I swear, I never watched a better video explaining the behaviour of electrons

  • @acscp125
    @acscp125 2 роки тому

    This is also called the Dirac belt trick. This Is a really nice demonstration!!

  • @e-alfo
    @e-alfo 2 роки тому

    the level of the topics is getting deeper and more interesting every time

  • @slusheewolf2143
    @slusheewolf2143 2 роки тому +1

    1:09 was a jumpcut, but it was so seamless, I hardly noticed
    I wish video games loaded cutscenes and new maps like that

    • @citratune7830
      @citratune7830 2 роки тому

      sorry, but rendering doesnt work like that

    • @abdobelbida7170
      @abdobelbida7170 2 роки тому

      @@citratune7830 can you explain to me why?

  • @jay-thetruth-stone12
    @jay-thetruth-stone12 2 роки тому

    My brain exploded with madness when I saw the belt illustrations. And that's not even me exaggerating. Right on!!!

  • @WishPL
    @WishPL 2 роки тому

    book and belt trick blew my mind.

  • @krunalpanchal6137
    @krunalpanchal6137 2 роки тому

    this is amazing

  • @endgovernmentextremism
    @endgovernmentextremism 2 роки тому

    By far, without a doubt, the best entry-level educational channel on UA-cam.

  • @justalittleoff-grid1180
    @justalittleoff-grid1180 2 роки тому

    A fantastic analogy on the tip of the proverbial iceberg that is quantum mechanics! I had to proctor my first quantum mechanic class, this level of counter intuitive “non-relativistic”reality takes a bit of time to wrap one’s head around. So to be able to explain it simply takes some considerable effort. Hell, I remember just the introduction to quantum mechanics changed my perspective of what is “reality”. Anyway, very cool vids my dude!

  • @anoimo9013
    @anoimo9013 2 роки тому

    very cool¡¡¡¡ I want to know how you did
    the trick of the white ball

  • @LegendEditz100
    @LegendEditz100 2 роки тому

    the reason is perfect time stopping and smartness and timed talking.
    thats the trick breh

  • @iloveplasticbottles
    @iloveplasticbottles 2 роки тому

    That belt trick was quite the twist!

  • @jeiwaru
    @jeiwaru 2 роки тому

    Amazing!

  • @freezinfire
    @freezinfire 2 роки тому

    This used to bugged me in High School. Thanks for the explaination.

  • @fayeblake5463
    @fayeblake5463 2 роки тому

    Belt trick is insane. This man always gives the fact.

  • @gameuck17
    @gameuck17 2 роки тому +1

    After seeing the belt trick, this may explain how easy a slinky can be tangled and now we have a way to undo what seams impossible with a double overlap. To the stairs.

  • @jlpsinde
    @jlpsinde 2 роки тому

    Genius as always

  • @KraussEMUS1
    @KraussEMUS1 2 роки тому

    Wow! This is amazing physics!

  • @calebk1841
    @calebk1841 2 роки тому +2

    Thanks! next time I happen go around an electron I'll keep this in mind

  • @imbatman62
    @imbatman62 2 роки тому

    Your videos are sooo coool

  • @gluino
    @gluino 2 роки тому +6

    Can you really walk around an electron if electrons don't ever sit still?
    8:22 Can you show a drawing or animation about rotating apparatus and observing the wave function change?

    • @channeldoesnotexist
      @channeldoesnotexist 3 місяці тому

      The wave function of a particle is not an observable. The resulting interference of two particles on a detector as a result of out of phase wave functions is.

  • @user-yg5yk2kg7d
    @user-yg5yk2kg7d 2 роки тому

    you should go to Penn and teller fool us show! great video!

  • @michaelcornish2299
    @michaelcornish2299 2 роки тому

    Nice model for spin half particles

  • @zathrasyes1287
    @zathrasyes1287 2 роки тому

    Nice trick

  • @-_Nuke_-
    @-_Nuke_- 2 роки тому +1

    8:49 wow this is relativity all over again I love it!

  • @Moshinoki
    @Moshinoki 2 роки тому

    I find it really cool that you're doing mental health sponsors in a science channel, keep up the great work!

  • @sharvilsawargaonkar5791
    @sharvilsawargaonkar5791 2 роки тому +4

    Going under the book is also making the ends of the belt to twist

  • @S0HAMS0NAR
    @S0HAMS0NAR 2 роки тому

    This guy is so informative

  • @l0g1cseer47
    @l0g1cseer47 2 роки тому +2

    Cool vid! Sponsor ads should be at the start or end of the content to prevent interference or distraction in learning interesting advanced physics ideas. Thanks for your attention.

  • @LordOfHunger777
    @LordOfHunger777 2 роки тому

    Very interesting

  • @kingneuo881
    @kingneuo881 2 роки тому +1

    yay some fine good perfecc content

  • @RiyaSharma-fr7qu
    @RiyaSharma-fr7qu 2 роки тому

    You're amazing ✨

  • @gordonstull1962
    @gordonstull1962 2 роки тому +2

    A four-cycle engines valve timing does the same thing. Just like the four-cycle engine, the electron absorbs & releases engery from unseen particle-flow. The spin of an electron may be caused from smaller orbiting-particle systems moving around and into & out of the electron. It's always been my belief that orbiting-particle system's make up all matter, as well as all empty space, no exception to the rule. Thank you very much for this video!

    • @storm37000
      @storm37000 2 роки тому +1

      Protons and Neutrons are made up of things like that, 3 Quarks bound with gluons rapidly rotating around each other. Electrons are more similar to quarks though and what your saying sounds along the lines of what string theory says.

    • @gordonstull1962
      @gordonstull1962 2 роки тому

      @@storm37000 I think of the string theory as being the dynamics of an under-square vortex, where coil & un-coil create those critical balancing mechanisms that make an open-loop under-square vortex strong.

  • @dougb4483
    @dougb4483 2 роки тому

    Great video, cousin!

  • @michaelcombrink8165
    @michaelcombrink8165 2 роки тому

    Teacher's everywhere should take a dozen courses from you on how to make learning fun and amazing

  • @spiderdude2099
    @spiderdude2099 2 роки тому +2

    If there was any other classical example that described electron angular momentum better than the word “spin”, we would probably use that and call it something other than “spin”. But calling it “spin” is still close enough to what’s going on that we use it. But just keep in mind, it’s VERY different than just the idea that the electron is spinning.

  • @MmmBopsPops
    @MmmBopsPops 2 роки тому

    0:52 & 1:30 - WITCH!
    3:06 - There's no better use for an O-Chem book than to weigh down something. Good use!

  • @danrazART
    @danrazART 2 роки тому

    Best visual assumption of electron spin on the Internet.

  • @ZoTrAcK
    @ZoTrAcK 2 роки тому

    Whoa, now I get it!

  • @ethandominic-13
    @ethandominic-13 2 роки тому

    Action Lab: Grabs belt.
    Me: *Breathing intensifies*

  • @kikosplendito
    @kikosplendito 2 роки тому

    those animations blew my mind

  • @GetMoGaming
    @GetMoGaming 2 роки тому +6

    The way you describe this is as if it's a real physical feature of the universe. Viewers should know - it's not. It's another workaround devised by theoretical magicians to get the data to make sense. That's quantum mechanics in a nutshell. It's a very accurate tool.

    • @slusheewolf2143
      @slusheewolf2143 2 роки тому

      Of course, I'm intelligent to understand that lol
      What I can't understand and why I'm probably really bad at physics in general, is HOW AN OBJECT ISN'T ROTATING, but it looks like it is. The only way for that to happen is if something is rotating or moving around the electron, giving the illusion of movement.

    • @GetMoGaming
      @GetMoGaming 2 роки тому

      @@slusheewolf2143 You can't think of it in that way. For it to make sense, you must forget the classical form of a spinning object and accept it as a quantum property. -from Wikipedia: "While the question of whether elementary particles actually rotate is ambiguous (as they appear point-like), this picture is correct insofar as spin obeys the same mathematical laws as quantized angular momenta do"

  • @mollykins8h
    @mollykins8h 2 роки тому

    This is magic, I need 3d models.