What is Spin? A Geometric explanation

This is the best explanation of quantum spin in a youtube video that I have ever listened to.

This is the first time I’ve had a tangible, intuitive understanding of this concept. So thank you, and well done

Just finished my Master Thesis on differential spin geometry. I must say, your video really nicely explains the origins of spinors! really enjoyed it!!

All videos of ScienceClic should be given as a introduction for any student in physics, when exposed to these topics. This is just so intuitive, clear and well-built, like all the other videos, amazing!

This channel is actually astonishing. Its the only channel that can breakdown such absurdly abstract and complex topics into a form that's so clearly understandable. all without sacrificing "too much" of its initial complexity.

What a clear explanation! I like that this cover the idea of spin (unlike many videos of how spin is like rotation but not really a rotation which leave open what is is). Just enough group theory to get the idea without diving deep into it. Absolutely best video of spin I've ever seen.

I've been getting obsessed with spinors for the last half-a-year and wow, what a fascinating conceptual entity. Without it, the entirety of electromagnetic fields, particle behavior and therefore the universe we are all familiar with wouldn't be possible (nor exist). It's a hell of a challenge learning it as a layman, but the fact that reality operates by these rules and we somehow figured out these hidden mechanics (there may be more we haven't discovered) is truly a remarkable achievement for our species, who've somehow gotten this far. Kudos to Dirac - a theoretical physicist I think that needs to be recognized and commended a lot more. For those of you want to know more of the technical aspects of spinors, I found Richard Behiel's channel excellent. They are very long videos, but wonderful.

I've been watching sci-educational YouTube for over 10 years and this is the first time I've ever felt like I have some understanding of what "spin" is. Damn good stuff, dude.

Holey crap - this video connects math to physics in an understandable fashion without having to try to read through a 500 page tome of incomprehensible hieroglyphics. I always believed it could be done, but this channel finally did it. Technical and true without being inaccessible or insulting. Good job people. You did not put a spin on this.

I've never seen such an understandable explanation of spin. All I've ever seen or read is "well it's not really spinning, it's just behaving like it is spinning", and then it gets increasingly complicated as they try to elaborate on that. There's also that knot stuff and the mobius strip thing. Very unintuitive. Your explanation however Mind blown

20-minute video from ScienceClic? Let's fucking go

14:53 i was completely dumbfounded before but the moment this graph shows up everything clicks together and i have a eurika moment. Such a cool explanation very intuitive

Waking up to a ScienceClic video is something else! Excited to watch this!

Einstein once said if you can't explain it to a 6-year-old, you don't know it well yourself. The explanations through the simplifications of a Master on the subject, with wonderful graphics, is what I've just experienced. I can only say this to the creator, wonderful job, bravo 👏

Best Science channel on YouTube period.

Many people have tried explaining spin, and now we'll get to see how ScienceClic does it.

I never understood why spin didn't make electrons spin.... but this channel explains it perfectly and glosses over it like nothing. Simply beautiful.

Wow! This is the best explanation ever I've seen about spin. No hand waving and silly analogies. Thank you!!

Am i the only one who´s getting unsettling existential dread feelings once the hypnotic music of scienceclic´s videos sets in?

Great video as always! Love the animations, and specifically how the 'collapse' is contrasted by fast movements while everything else has interpolation, nice subtle detail there. In general the analogies are simple to understand for such difficult to master topics. And the 3D and Space-Time grid representations have got to be one of the best ones out there.