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Are there subatomic particles that do not spin?

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Are there subatomic particles that do not spin?

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  1. None of them actually spin, but they all possess a property called spin, which is loosely described as "intrinsic angular momentum" and is roughly analogic to classical spin.  Some of the behavior that subatomic particles exhibit is akin to the behavior exhibited by a spinning object.


  2. From recent study of E. Sternglass's papers, and reading your question as implying the structure is of one or more charges rotating to create the entity, the answer would be no, all subatomic structures have rotary motion to support the structure we see as a subatomic "particle".

    From this and other reading it seems that the smallest entities are electromagnetic, nothing with actual mass and that the mass is created by the relativistic speeds of the charges.

  3. I think a Higgs boson has zero spin.  I am not at all knowledgeable about the theoretical higgs particles, but i know its spin is zero.

    Note:  I think to use "spin" as a verb is misleading.    From my vague and diminishing understanding I think there has been no heavily accepted evidence that particles are literally spinning.The particles have a property that can be explained by thinking of it as physically spinning, but may not be.   For example an electron is thought of a point particle with no physical dimension ....how can something with no dimension spin.  .  I always remember it stated as .... "a particle has spin" as opposed to "a particle spins"

  4. None of the truly fundamental particles have spin zero as far as we know.

    Scalar (or pseudoscalar) mesons have spin zero, but they are composites.

  5. Do U mean spinning on its own axis??

    Well , there is no sub atomic particles that don't spin on its own axis ; even an electron spin on its own axis : it;s rate of spinning is 1/2

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