20 Things You Didn't Know About... Magnetism

[Michaelangelica]

http://discovermagazine.com/2011/jul-aug/20-things-you-didnt-know-about-magnetism

 

2 Take the case of Richard Feynman. When asked to explain magnetism, he

(video). After seven minutes of stonewalling, he finally said, “I really can’t do a good job, any job, of explaining magnetic force in terms of something else that you’re more familiar with because I don’t understand it in terms of anything else that you’re more familiar with.”

 

3 He did break down and try for a few seconds before abandoning the attempt. Those seconds were packed with oversimplifications: “All the electrons [in a magnet] are spinning in the same direction.”

 

[phillip1882]

magnetism is pretty wierd, i don't think anyone really understands it, including myself. we understand the effects, but why it generates that effect we really don't know.