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I guess the next questions would be
Quantum Physics “spin” has nothing to do with actual spinning. It’s just a weirdly named property of particles.
I've always thought that they should have just named the properties something like P1, P2, etc. So there's no connotation.
Spin is a form of angular momentum, so there is a reason for the name. It’d be a pain in the butt to learn if properties didn’t have catchy names too.
I thought "spinning" was meant rather literally in this case and not in some quantum sense
For black holes, it does refer to actual spinning. Particles are the ones not really spinning.