hmmm I wonder... If spin is a spin of the electrons field, then maybe electrons are like earth moon, and for each revolution around the center, they revolve once so as to always show the same side to the nucleus.
This way each orbit would produce one revolution. And it would mean spin only happens in orbit, but not be the orbit (which apparently doesn't add up from what I've read). Does this make sense? On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 1:51 PM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: > > If free electrons had a spin magnetic moment, then I would expect this to >> also >> happen for cyclotron radiation. >> >> If it does, then I'm obviously wrong about electron intrinsic spin. >> > > It would be interesting to know about whether there's line splitting in > cyclotron radiation. > > If the electron does not have intrinsic spin, we would need to rethink > Fermi statistics and electron degeneracy pressure. > > Following a link in an answer to the physics.SE question that was posed > yesterday, I found this interesting article that says that the "intrinsic" > spin of the electron is not magical in the way it is sometimes described > and instead corresponds to actual angular momentum in the EM field of the > electron: > > http://www.physics.mcmaster.ca/phys3mm3/notes/whatisspin.pdf > > Eric > >
