What Does An Electron Look Like When You Rotate It?

I talk about electron spin and spin 1/2 particles and what they look like when you rotate it. I show you the Dirac Belt Trick.

[TheActionLab]

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)

[ShortHax]

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

[CaravaggioRoma]

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

[self-proclaimedanimator]

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

[shadow_entity]

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

[huawafabe]

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.

[elNathNY]

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.

[sebbes]

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.

[imbatman]

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

[metamind]

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.

[lamao]

The Belt trick is amazing like all of your explanations ❤

[tsmith]

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

[hnjgaiszru]

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

[Kislashe]

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.

[deviles]

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

[caepohbasics]

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

[GooogleGoglee]

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

[CanadaBud]

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. 😁

[drakonyanazkar]

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.

[GB-tyuc]

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