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Magnetism only feels like magic, because we don't have biological sensors for it (feddit.de)
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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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[-] Kalcifer@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Would you mind defining "we don't really know how it works"?

[-] ech@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

If the greatest minds of our age don't know, what hope do we mere mortals have?

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