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Explain it as simply as possible.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
-Albert Einstein
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
-Albert Einstein
@sonhouse saidYes, that's all very obvious, but what is it? Is it a magic particle? Or a magic wave? Or a distortion of dark energy? Or a space warp? Or invisible rubber bands and springs?
@Metal-Brain
Two things. One, every atom has a magnetic field, tiny as it may be.
If they are all jumbled up they add up to zilch.
If you can get all those tiny magnets to line up then you have a useable external field made up by all those tiny ones acting in accord.
The second one comes from moving electrical currents in a conductor.
If you have an electrical curre ...[text shortened]... or.
Not sure how I can make it simpler than that. Anyone else willing to try, knock yourself out.
@metal-brain saidAlbert Einstein was wrong about that but still right about most other things.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
-Albert Einstein
Explain it as simply as possible.Unfortunately the simplest explanation will still always be beyond your willingness let alone ability to understand it. Therefore we would be wasting our time giving the the simplest explanation even if one of us had it to give, which probably none of us do.
@sonhouse saidI believe the answer to his question is in flux. 😀
@bunnyknight
That was to answer the question Metal brain brought up. It's a field of force carrying lines capable of interacting with atoms and conductors. Anything beyond that you will have to ask a physicist and I doubt you would like his or her answer either.
What CAUSES magnetism? it is one of the fundamental forces that came with the making of our universe so when the ...[text shortened]... re from the start so you best ask a cosmologist that question. It would be like 'what causes atoms'.
@metal-brain saidWhat is the most complicated concept you know of?
Explain it as simply as possible.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
-Albert Einstein
@metal-brain saidElectric charges cause magnetism.
Explain it as simply as possible.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
-Albert Einstein
@wolfgang59 saidI know you weren't asking me Wolfman.
What is the most complicated concept you know of?
Explain it simply to us.
Thanks.