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Magnetism only feels like magic, because we don't have biological sensors for it (feddit.de)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by swnt@feddit.de to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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Think about it. Isn't light+eyes and ears+sound just the same in terms of their "influence at a distance"? We don't feel that as abnormal or magic - simply because we've sensors for them and are used to it. But physically speaking light and magnetism are based on electromagnetic forces.

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[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No, we don't, and ICP was right. Broken clocks and all that.

We don't understand the origins of the strong force or relationship between electromagnetism and gravity.

Here, Feynman is not afraid to say we don't know at the end of a very relevant rant about magnetic attraction/repulsion.

https://youtu.be/MO0r930Sn_8?feature=shared

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