A new Boson?

[Alex K]

You know when Peter...

Haha No, this helps. I was always told not to think of spin as I normally would, and here you've sort of told me to do exactly that.

The problem is that there is afaik no alternative way to think about spin in terms of anything familiar that would more accurately convey what it is. So "behaves as if it were rotating, even though it isn't" is as good as it gets... and it's honestly not such a bad picture at all physics wise.