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Why comparison of particles with tiny magnets is not accurate??? Explaining magnetism in quantum level!!!
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Why comparison of particles with tiny magnets is not accurate???
Why comparison of particles with tiny magnets is not accurate???
Let me explain this with a little
example….
Imagine that you somehow get an
electron. You placed it on a Cartesian graph having x and y axis. That electron
have an spin 1 and points to the Y direction.
Now repeat the experiment with an
classical magnet.
We will get no magnetic field
pointing in the X direction in the second case. It’s a kind of obvious, as both
X and Y are perpendicular.
But twist comes when we try to
measure the spin for an electron or electron like particle in X direction…..
If we measure the spin then, we will
observe that, half of the time we are getting spin as 1 and in the other half
of the time we will get -1.
This is the beauty of quantum world.
It always has something baffle you and will keep your mouth open out of
amazement.
So, does this represent anything
wrong in the theory???
No, it doesn’t....
Actually, if you try to get the
average of the values we got ( spin 1 in half of the time and spin -1 during
other of half) is equal to zero which corresponds to our value with classical
magnets.
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