
Does particle spin affect life on Earth?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Is There a Kind of Angular Momentum in the Universe?
If you spin something it'll keep spinning like out in space where there isn't anything the air is slowed down or if you don't push an object it won't spin. So when the universe does this accounting to make sure that angular momentum is conserved particle spin is part of its balanced book. We call particle spin spin because it's a kind of angular momentum. You can take angular momentum and convert it into particle spin and back.
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