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Do electron spin like a ball?

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Do electron spin like a ball? you have heard that electron have spin and magnitude of that spin is $\dfrac{1}{2}$. well it's actually $\dfrac{1}{2}\hbar $ we just take $\hbar = 1$  and we all know that $\hbar$ is reduced plank constant. but is electron really spinning like ball and having angular momentum of $\dfrac{1}{2}\hbar$ ? hmmm... what is velocity of the electron then? let's try to calculate that , let's assume electron is solid sphere and it's radius is $r_e = 2.81×10^{-15}$ meters. (check this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_electron_radius) from high-school physics you can calculate moment of inertia of the solid sphere. and it's turn out to be $I = \dfrac{2}{5}mr^2$. and angular velocity $\omega = \dfrac{v}{r}$  so we have all the equipment. now we know that angular momentum $L = I\omega $  also $ L = \dfrac{1}{2}\hbar$  so we have $ I\omega = \dfrac{1}{2}\hbar$ putting Value of $I$ and $\omega$ $\dfrac{2}{5}mr^{2}\dfrac{v}{r} = \dfrac{1}{2}\hba

Why does time run slower near a black hole?

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Why does time run slower near a black hole? Time dilation General relativity is Einstein's Theory of gravity, in General relativity the proper time of the observer for Schwarzschild black hole is given by $ d\tau ^2 = ( 1 - \frac{2GM}{r})dt^2 + ( 1 - \frac{2GM}{r})^{-1} dr^2 + r^2 d\Omega ^2$ Where $d \Omega ^2 = d \theta ^2 + \sin^{2}\theta d\phi^2$ Here $ d\tau $ is proper time of an observer that means it's time what observer's clock reads Now consider that our observer is not having any motion in space that is $dr = d\phi = d\theta = 0$ so our equation now becomes $ d\tau^2 = ( 1 - \frac{2GM}{r})dt^2 $ $ d\tau = (1 - \frac{2GM}{r})dt  ...(1) $ But what does dt means in eq(1)?  if your observer is far away from the gravitating object then we can take  $  r \approx \infty $ then $ d\tau  = dt $,  so $ dt$ is time experienced by observer who is really far away from the object or dt is time experienced by observer who is in flat spacetime. if observer is out side the even h