I was reading my uni physics book to study up on magnetism the other day and honest to god, ICP was right, scientists legit do not know how magnets work.
They obviously do. But there is, to this day, debate about whether a magnet can exist as an “isolated” North Pole. It’s like, with electric charge, you can isolate positive and negative charges; that’s what electricity is. But with magnets, nobody has ever been able to separate a north and South Pole: if you cut a magnet in half, you get two magnets, each with a north and South Pole. It’s a fairly widespread belief that magnetic monopoles should be possible
At least, that’s what I’ve gathered. They try to just throw equations at you so you get distracted and stop thinking about it
I was reading my uni physics book to study up on magnetism the other day and honest to god, ICP was right, scientists legit do not know how magnets work.
They obviously do. But there is, to this day, debate about whether a magnet can exist as an “isolated” North Pole. It’s like, with electric charge, you can isolate positive and negative charges; that’s what electricity is. But with magnets, nobody has ever been able to separate a north and South Pole: if you cut a magnet in half, you get two magnets, each with a north and South Pole. It’s a fairly widespread belief that magnetic monopoles should be possible
At least, that’s what I’ve gathered. They try to just throw equations at you so you get distracted and stop thinking about it