The Emergence Machine

Spin

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Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.

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Emergence definition

Spin emerges as the intrinsic angular momentum of a particle or object, arising from its intrinsic rotation or orbital motion around its axis, built upon the understanding of matter as a collection of particles that occupy space and interact with energy, and the interaction of movement and mass resulting in a tendency to continue rotating around an axis.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “spin” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “spin”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL5L4L3L2L1L0SpinAngular MomentumMomentumMassMovementActionMatterMotionQuantityEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

used byprerequisitesEnglishL13SpinL5ActionL1MatterL1Angular MomentumL4E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Action L1 (requires)
    Turn rapidly around a central point -- prerequisite: action
  • Matter L1 (requires)
    Spin requires understanding of matter as a foundational concept.
  • Angular Momentum L4 (requires)
    Intrinsic angular momentum of a particle or object, arising from its intrinsic rotation or orbital motion around its axis.

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