Spin is a fundamental property of tiny particles like electrons and photons that causes them to behave as if they're rotating, even though they don't physically spin like objects do in everyday life. It matters because spin determines how particles interact with magnetic fields and with each other, making it essential to understanding the structure of atoms, magnetism, and the behavior of matter itself.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).