How does magnets work?

[04mmurkett]

Eric Mc said:

True. If the OP is just playing at being an idiot ( something at which he is doing a very good job, I have to say), then The Lounge is where this type of nonsense belongs.

Only smart and sensible people post in the Science Forum.

I'm sorry for besmirching the Science forum with my rabid idiocy.

I've never been in The Lounge before, I'll aim my posting urges over there next time I feel like lowering the collective intelligence level of PistonHeads.

Furthermore...

[DRCAGE]

But what happens when you cut one in half?

[04mmurkett]

WeirdNeville said:

04mmurkett said:

Eric Mc said:

True. If the OP is just playing at being an idiot ( something at which he is doing a very good job, I have to say), then The Lounge is where this type of nonsense belongs.

Only smart and sensible people post in the Science Forum.

I'm sorry for besmirching the Science forum with my rabid idiocy.

I've never been in The Lounge before, I'll aim my posting urges over there next time I feel like lowering the collective intelligence level of PistonHeads.

Apart from your thread in the lounge slightly earlier this afternoon, when it was suggested you infect the science! forum with your lunacy.

I suggest you spend more time at work working.

Oh, I think that one was moved from GG. I've never intentionally been in The Lounge.

Thanks for the advice.

[rhinochopig]

Max_Torque said:

grumbledoak said:

Do not ask what 'fields' are. People get upset.

Are you being silly? EVERYONE knows what 'fields' are! (It's where the Cows and sheep live......)


;-)


(are sheep magnetic?)

No they're electric - like friends. They're what Androids dream about.

[Eric Mc]

"How does magnets work"?"

Not only was he asleep during the "Science" classes, he must have been comatose during "English".

[04mmurkett]

Eric Mc said:

"How does magnets work"?"

You put an extra quote mark in there! Unfortunately that means all your remarks about grammar on the internet are now nullified.

[GadgeS3C]

DRCAGE said:

But what happens when you cut one in half?

You get two lickle trolls ;-)

Question is are they attractive or repellent trolls?

[Incorrigible]

I actually enjoyed your second post very much

You're growing on me. But then, so does mould

[Eric Mc]

04mmurkett said:

You put an extra quote mark in there! Unfortunately that means all your remarks about grammar on the internet are now nullified.

Deliberately done to see if you would notice.

(That may not really be true).

But, to be a bit serious, we do try to keep the Science Forum for bona fide science type questions and discussions rather than silly stuff. It's one of the reasons why the mods opened it up as a separate area.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

rhinochopig said:

No they're electric - like friends. They're what Androids dream about.

If androids dream of electric sheep, what do they count in order to fall asleep in the first place?

[rhinochopig]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

rhinochopig said:

No they're electric - like friends. They're what Androids dream about.

If androids dream of electric sheep, what do they count in order to fall asleep in the first place?

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Incorrigible said:

You're growing on me. But then, so does mould

You need medical help?

or

You need medical help!



Magnetism vs Gravity - there's a certain, um, alignment (or not )...

That's the answer to the OP's question (whatever it was) - Fe molecules line up in a bar of Iron to 'allow' magnetic force as a Magnetic Field, which the compass needle lines up with locally . Out in the field (literally), the N & S Poles are due to the Fe in the Earth's core - think of the Earth's core as a giant magnetic bar of iron !

But even IF the N & S Poles 'swap' (which some scientists say is imminent), there will still be Gravity (molecules attracting each other generally, regardless of their nature and totally regardless of whether they are magnetic Fe molecules ) - Gravity's vector is simplistically at 90 degrees to the Earth's magnetic field, pulling us - and everything else - in the general direction of 'down' (towards the middle of the HUGE mass that is the Earth itself compared to us or anything else in the biosphere) as opposed to the general direction of North or South due to the Earth's Magnetic Field...

[TheTurbonator]

Eric Mc said:

But, to be a bit serious, we do try to keep the Science Forum for bona fide science type questions and discussions rather than silly stuff. It's one of the reasons why the mods opened it up as a separate area.

Yet we still get countless threads on perpetual motion.

[Eric Mc]

I don't think the topic is the issue - it's more the manner in which the question is asked and the style of the debate.

[MrGman]

More interestingly, why do they work?

[Halmyre]

MrGman said:

More interestingly, why do they work?

How they work is due to electron spin and all the electrons lining up so that the effect is noticeable at the macroscopic level.

Why they work is a more philosophical question!

[Simpo Two]

MrGman said:

More interestingly, why do they work?

Because they're magnetic, stupid

[maffski]

TheTurbonator said:

Eric Mc said:

But, to be a bit serious, we do try to keep the Science Forum for bona fide science type questions and discussions rather than silly stuff. It's one of the reasons why the mods opened it up as a separate area.

Yet we still get countless threads on perpetual motion.

Yes, those things seem to go on for ever. Why is that?

[Simpo Two]

Because they use idiots as a power source. Limitless!

[CommanderJameson]

rhinochopig said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

rhinochopig said:

No they're electric - like friends. They're what Androids dream about.

If androids dream of electric sheep, what do they count in order to fall asleep in the first place?

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Feh, they don't need to do that.

They just go to sleep();