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Photons Are Easier To Understand

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Posted by Richard Ruquist on March 7, 2003 06:31:16 UTC

Photon spin is just the polarization of its associated EM waves. For example, you can have two orthagonal polarizations. Or you can have left and right circular polarization.

Perhaps the wave functions of electrons similarly reveal their spin. I cannot remember if that is so.

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