Recent content by Frigorifico9

I thought about this, but here's the thing: If you measure the spin of this state in different direction you will get different results, right? If you measured it in a direction that was aligned to it the beam would not split. But instead the beam ALWAYS splits, as if the vector was always...

Thank you so much for helping me out. Could I ask you a follow up question? I am struggling to think about the state of the wavefunction before the SG measurement If the beam is moving in the $z$ direction we can choose to measure along the $y$ direction and we can represent the state of the...

First of all, I apologize if I use incorrect terminology or I express myself poorly, I am trying my best. That said, I hope you guys are smart enough to understand me despite my shortcomings I know that calcite has birefringence, and I know that if you take calcite crystals and cut them and...

Thanks for your answer. I hope we never interact again

Forget about my original question. Thanks to you I have developed a new question which I know will not live up to your standards, but which I hope it is answerable in a way my original question wasn't because I am just that stupid. Here is the new question: How much unpolarized light does a...

Dude, I know. I shouldn't have to write a question with perfect terminology to get an answer. This is not a research paper. I would like to think that the people here are smart enough to understand poorly phrase questions from stupid shitty people like me. I am stupid but I still want an answer...

Look, I'm honestly sorry for how badly I expressed myself, I truly am and I am grateful for people like you who force me to be better. But I would like to know, are you just gonna point out my mistakes in phrasing this question or are you gonna answer it? Because it seems to me like you...

In the Stern-Gerlach experiment 100% of the atoms you shoot through the magnetic field make it to the other side, except they are split 50/50 into two beams Meanwhile, if you shine unpolarized light at a polarizer exactly half of the light will make ti through, the rest will be reflected...

When light passes through Calcite it is split into two beams opposite polarizations, doubling the image, and this sounds very similar to the Stern-Gerlach experiment where atoms are split into two beams with opposite polarizations The difference is that with light the opposite polarizations are...

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Thank you so much. For something so important, they talk about it remarkably little. I have also not found a single mention of the Stern-Gerlach experiment. Do you happen to know when they cover that?

I am very interested in how Pauli found the Pauli matrices, so I read his original paper, but it didn't give me the perspective I wanted, so I went to Mehra and Rechenberg, but here's the thing, after reading Volumes 1, 2 and most of volume 3, I can't find any mention of Pauli matrices anywhere...

I agree, that's why I said that it DEPENDS on angular momentum not that it was angular momentum

I'm trying to make sure I understand the g-factor of the electron, so if my question is flawed please don't just point out my flaws, but help me correct my understanding If I understand correctly the magnetic moment of an object depends on it charge, its mass and its momentum $$ \mu =...

The thing that made me assume this has happened was this: In real space, up and down spin are separated by 180 degrees, but in probability space they are separated by 90 degrees. Using only these observations it is possible to derive the math of spin from scratch, but this experiment hadn't been...