The memory required to track all these particles was insane, so we just made a wave of where they were most likely to be and picked a random spot when the exact location was needed. 🤷

I think where the sense starts to fall through is in remembering that it’s not a ball though. It’s a wave, and the spin only in one direction when interacting with something else, otherwise it’s akin to three parts spinning clockwise, and one part spinning counter-clockwise. 🫠

Thank you!

And yes you are correct, as it exists as a probability wave and has not finite size, it is not spinning. It does however have intrinsic angular momentum as seen in effects like Hydrogen Fine Structure, that behave exactly as though it were a ball spinning, with a set specific angular momentum. But don’t worry, the confusion is alleviated when you learn that it very definitely isn’t a ball spinning as it doesn’t have a singular spin but rather a super position of possible spin states. You can think of it like, for example, three parts spinning clockwise and one part spinning counter-clockwise.

It usually around this point that I am reminded that the universe does not owe my puny monkey brain a lick of sense.

There are also things like Hydrogen Fine Structure , that behaves as though it is a ball that actually spins. 🤷

It does however also have repercussions that are inline with it being a sphere that is spinning.