Tim Maudlin
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4,767 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Aug
Tim Maudlin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well
There is this physical characteristic we call spin.
Formally when we have a s an object as a a particle with spin.
Instead of the wave function being a complex function, it's called a spin it it's it's spinorial function.
We could go into the math.
It doesn't really matter.
Physically, people often say uh uh a particle with spin acts as if it has a magnetic moment, if it's like a little bar magnet.
And then sometimes they say, well, if it's a charged particle, if you imagine a classical charged particle, a classical charged ball of ball of charge literally spinning.
Okay, it would create a magnetic
Feel.
And then I mean there's actually kind of a funny meme where they say, yeah, so spin to understand spin, it's like there's a little ball, a charge ball that's spinning, except there's no ball and nothing is spinning.
Um which is about right.
Yeah.
I mean you have this kind of classical system that you're using and then
But y but none of the classical features that make it relevant do you think exist.
So it's a weird situation.
All you really need to know is that it behaves as if it has it's like a little bar magnet with a north and south pole.
It has a magnetic moment.
And if you have something with a magnetic moment like that, and again, this is purely classical, and you've you shoot it.
through an inhomogeneous magnetic field.
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