On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 5:52 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > This is due to the fact that an electron undergoing translational motion > creates > a magnetic field. It isn't an indication that the electron is rotating on it's > own axis, and thus has an intrinsic magnetic field.
Okay, but the free electron still has spin and a magnetic moment. http://www.chemistry.mcmaster.ca/esam/Chapter_4/section_2.html http://prd.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v3/i8/p1728_1 There are many experiments which have demonstrated this.
