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Stephen Wolfram Q&A, For Kids (and others) [March 12, 2021]

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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Angular Momentum in Atoms, Quantum Mechanics

An atom can have zero s of angemomentum are half a unit, one unit. As it gets more amomentum, it's as if the thing is spinning on its axis faster and faster. When the angramentu is zero, the angular distribution is like, i don't care which direction i'm going in. It's equally probable that the photon goes in all directions when the ang Sacramento is a. Let's saye. Next level up is bbat. I think it's three coines squared theta plus one minus one pi. The m is the next so basically what happens is: Ah, gosh, this is an extremely complicated kind of math

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