• Hugin@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    In the sense that it’s two different but similar states.

    I’m pretty sure we can say it’s not actually spin now. Electrons have a charge and a magnetic field. If they are charged and spinning that world generate a magnetic field. So spin was used to describe the orientation of the field. The name for the state stuck