Anonymous #1 4d

Explaining magnets doesn’t make it not an invisible magical force though

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Anonymous lightbluehater 4d

Right! like it has an explanation ofc but the fact it exists is literal magic

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Anonymous #3 4d

I unironically keep trying to explain to other people that this is what the “fuckin magnets, how do they work” line means in that one ICP song 💀 (and I’m not even an ICP listener, just a dude who feels defensive over my own sense of awe & wonder at the world)

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Anonymous lightbluehater 4d

We actually dont fully understand magnetism so anyone saying they can explain it does not know what they are talking about - an engineer

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Anonymous #1 4d

I would love to see you try to explain magnetism… literal rocks that have invisible force fields, way too trippy

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Anonymous #5 4d

I was just going to do a simple explanation. Not like a proof. I’m a science teacher so my job is to break things down in easier ways

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Anonymous #1 4d

well i'm sure they understand the grade school science teacher explanation already - they're in college! fortunately, that doesn't take away from the whimsy of it if you already understand that you dont understand it.

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Anonymous #1 4d

we teach kids to "understand" things that nobody understands, and i get why but it's a gripe i have with the education system. every few years you have to re-learn what you thought you already understood because someone lied to you for "simplicity's sake". just tell the kids we don't fully understand it and then build from there.

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Anonymous #1 4d

also the tone you had made me think you're discounting the idea of God because magnets have an explanation you can provide? but it is one of those things that if you believe in God can be fully attributed to that and it's a new kind of appreciation for the universe (that we don't understand)

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Anonymous #5 4d

Dude there was no tone. I was offering my time and expertise as someone with a stem degree that has taken several physics courses and teaches people on the daily. You are now making assumptions of both my beliefs and ops level of understanding without any evidence to back it up

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Anonymous #7 4d

Didn’t realize Isaac Newton was in the chat

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Anonymous #1 4d

Was I wrong? Do you believe in God? I'd love to know. And given that OP is in college, i'm not making any assumptions about him as to what I said, i can guarantee he understands the science teacher explanation already. He graduated high school. No assumptions there. Only assumption I made was about you and your beliefs based off the tone I perceived (granted tone is hard to read over text), but again, am I wrong?

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Anonymous #5 4d

1. I’m religious. 2. As someone who spent the last 4 years tutoring college students just because someone is in college does not mean they have the foundational knowledge in all subjects. Hence why it’s important to build a foundation. 3. I offered my time and you are rude af. OP had no issue with my comments to F off.

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Anonymous #1 4d

What are the physical properties of a magnet that creates the force or is it just accepted by everyone that it does what it does. Like we don’t question gravity even tho the absence of gravity changes how the laws of physics react?

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Anonymous #5 4d

I’m a physics major, pretty sure we understand the “how” at least very well, maybe not the why. Does that mean I remember it? No

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Anonymous OP 4d

Most people will just say charge is the physical property, and you're smart to compare it to gravity, some leading physicists will tell you it's a particle based force and likely operates in more than 3 dimensions (magnetism and gravity being similar in that way). But the 'school' answer is charge. Anyways, it's complicated, ICP said it best.

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Anonymous #5 4d

Well it’s the fact that the charges are moving that makes it magnetism

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Anonymous #5 4d

Why’re you being so rude? You’re acting like #1 personally attacked you but they’ve been nothing but kind and helpful here. Chill out

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Anonymous #9 3d

You don’t need to believe in magnets my friend, their forces are tangible

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