The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume III

Post by flipchart » Tue, Nov 26, 2013, 6:44 AM UTC

VLM wrote: post #7

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/29355/reading-the... I do not think either of Ron Maimon's comments could be easily improved upon. This stackexchange has been cleaned up as per the "I deleted some old and/or off topic comments" if I remember correctly this article used to have some hilarious deletionist rant about historical physics texts being off topic for physics SE.

Do you know any further details on his departure from StackExchange? I saw this message on his profile:

> I do not participate on this site any longer, except to respond to comments regarding my own text, if that text is unavailable in another form. I do not accept the political moderation atmosphere here, it is not compatible with open science.

It seemed like he really enjoyed helping people on the site, and there's nothing (left) on meta to show that the situation for him was deteriorating

Post by bcbroom » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 2:16 PM UTC

HowardMei wrote: post #16

Does anybody know why do particles spin in the first place?

As I remember, it not that the particles physically spin (at least no one has experimentally observed them spinning, the particles are too small to see) but that they can carry angular momentum. Large objects that we are familiar with that carry angular momentum are spinning, so 'spin' was used as an term, but I've heard people say to think this way is misleading.

Almost everyone's first question in a Quantum Mechanics class is 'why do things behave this way?' As far as I have heard, no one (even those that developed the equations) has anything better than 'these equations produce results consistent with experiment'.

Re: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume III

Re: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume III