Originally Posted by
ben m
Really? You understand intrinsic spin? I'm skeptical.
Don't be. Intrinsic spin is
intrinsic to something, and
makes it what it is. For example, a tornado has intrinsic spin. Try taking the spin out of the tornado. What are you left with? A tornado? Nope.
Originally Posted by
ben m
In the past, whenever you've said "I understand X", you've proceeded to spout great heaps of misunderstanding. Want to prove that? If I had told my graduate oral-exam committee "I understand intrinsic spin", they would have made me solve Peskin and Schroder problems on the blackboard. Peskin & Schroeder problem 3.1 is a good one.
Snipe snipe snipe, retreat behind mathematics. Now go and look at the Einstein-de Haas effect and magnetic dipole moment. Do you think the electron's spin ½ is some kind of magic? Presumably so, since
here you are advocating the point-particle electron. When godless dave said
nobody claimed they were point particles, you kept schtum, didn't you? Seeing as point particles can't spin.
Originally Posted by ben m
Evolutionist: Let's talk about <neat recent discovery>...
Don't bore us with ad-hominem trash. Talk about the scientific evidence. Talk about Einstein and Maxwell etc. Talk physics.