Timeline for Permanent magnets - why spontaneous symmetry breaking?
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| Jun 21, 2022 at 4:33 | comment | added | electronpusher | From your linked answer: "The electron does not need spin to explain its deflection behaviour [by an external magnetic field]." If true, that suggests to me that quantum features are not necessary to account for macroscopic magnetism. Were you intending to argue for or against that? | |
| Jun 21, 2022 at 2:59 | comment | added | HolgerFiedler | About the spin | |
| Jun 20, 2022 at 10:10 | comment | added | electronpusher | Interesting. I've heard it said that ferromagnetism is a "quantum phenomenon". If treating electrons as little magnetic dipoles is sufficient to explain ferromagnetism, then isn't classical physics sufficient? | |
| Jun 20, 2022 at 3:27 | history | answered | HolgerFiedler | CC BY-SA 4.0 |