# Quantization of Spin

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 I listened to the Working Session on April 24th, and the discussion about spin. It seemed like most of the discussion of classical spin. A lot of time was spent discussing actual physical motion about an axis of a spatial graph.Could not Quantized Spin for a fundamental particle be explained by having a small number of "forms" or geometries, and having evolution merely cycle through those forms?I am thinking of objects like Gliders in Conway's Life. Could not an electron have only a small number of forms that repeat when the rules are applied - and that an observation will only catch the object in one of a small number of geometries?
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Posted 7 months ago
 If I understand correctly this goes to think of spin as a quantum measurement already, but there are spin measurements with a certain result (for example a $\hat{\sigma}_z$ on an electron with spin status $\left| \frac{1}{2}, \pm \frac{1}{2}\right>$. Furthermore, it does not explain why it behaves exactly like an angular momentum from any point of view (especially the addition of angular moments)