Electron Spin

Quite.

Amazing how fast that Other Thread was whisked off the Front Page and into the shadows. For awhile I couldn't even find it, which leaves me wondering: would it have fared better had its author been female?

No, the two blatantly offensive, sexist, non-engineering reports are still "mysteriously" part of the "latest engineering news" menu for no apparent reason other than editorial approval for sloppy sensationalism.

Yep. And this in the face of the sheer volume of geniune news Out There from which they could have drawn their articles instead? You'd think from their choices of late that there was a dearth of anything genuinely newsworthy to put up on an engineering forum. Well, there isn't. There is more going on scientifically and technologically right now than at any other time in Human History and that's a fact. If they can't find anything better to blog about then they're not looking. That or they have an agenda.

Depends if your looking up or down at them. Down one has two.... Sorry I almost fell for the Jerry Springer trap.

they don't spin, they rotate

I was taught that they orbit.

geosynchronous?

Both. Electrons have spin, and they 'orbit' the nucleus. (Though 'orbit' is a vague term here, since the motion is a 'cloud' of probability.)

For a Helium atom the lowest shell, or 'orbital', is filled with 2 electrons, one with spin up and one with spin down. (Or, one CW the other CCW.)

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_{I know - nobody cares.}

Yes, but how many X and Y electrons does it have?

And, might helium be awarded (in the name of diversity) the coveted 'Element of the Year' award simply because enough X's are present?

^{I believe how Eu Mk II will vote is already clear}

To have one X there must be at least two p orbitals occupied. So carbon is the first element. To get two X's one could argue that either Neon or Florine has three or 2P orbitals must be needed making Silicon the first.

{I'm just geeking out! I miss Robin already.}

Most at CR4 do not care but some certainly do care.

What's funny is that nobody (at least nobody I know of) is really sure what the up and down spins of an electron means outside of these two quantum states existing in any orbital. As for the orbitals themselves it is good to remember that the shapes of these orbitals is not the trajectory that the electron must take to be in that orbital. It is the spatial shape of a fixed standard probability (90%?) that one will find the electron in this region.

Could they swing or dangle?

Depends if they are male or female.....

Boys have navigational equipment that girls lack. As this document explains,

https://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/friends/Technology_of_Oceania.pdf
the boy electrons will be better able to navigate their way around the atomic nucleus. It's not just Polynesian people who do/did this, it goes back a long time and diametrally through the globe.

Girl electrons clockwise, Boy electrons otherwise.