How Cheap Cigars Legitimized Quantum Mechanics

The Stern-Gerlach Experiment in lauded in textbooks around the world for its contributions to the world of quantum physics. But for a few years, scientists unknowingly praised it for proving the wrong thing! Because instead of proving an established hypothesis about how electrons work, it had actually discovered an entirely unexpected phenomenon (called spin).

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