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What is the magnetic field?

The Tabletop Explainer is an intermittent educational vlog presenting answers to viewer questions, brief science lessons, and ideas for teachers and students. It is a feature of my blog "Tilts at W...  
 
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jesuslovestreez (1 week ago) Show Hide
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Actually Sovereign, i beg to differ. though i don't know much about magnetism, i can tell you that Einstein's General Relativity can explain what gravity is AND how it works. Gravity is simply a warp in space-time
Sovereign19 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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exactly

after thousands of years of observing nature no one has the faintest idea how magnetism or gravity works, they just label them as 'fields' and move on
tehzoh (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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this is fail
pb0202xa (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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we lived into a 3dimensional world and everything is cause it by X,Y and Z -gizmo. Every other vector is another dimension, and another forces which work at with some charged particles,so we only use ,see and understand right, forward and up. And the gravity is not so strong like the EM !
Does anybody know smething about that? Why gravity loose power,until the electromagnetism is same konstanta !?!?
Sovereign19 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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no there are only 3 dimensions

how can anyone conceive of another dimension perpendicular to length, width, and height
robotbeez (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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the same as why 2d beings can't concieve width, basicaly, look up dr.quantum
Sovereign19 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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being too lazy to figure out how magnets work is not the same as conjecturing as to why something that does not exist cannot think
VelusDarkbind (1 week ago) Show Hide
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@Soverign19,

You need to check up on M-theory, String theory, Manifolds, and n-dimensional geometry such as hypercubes and tesseracts. Our limited naive realism can only take us so far with what we can perceive. Don't let your eyes fool you into thinking reality ends with your senses.
GoofyHamsterBoy (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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cool!
ezra3000 (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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field is a maths expression wich asigns to each point of space (right-left, foward-backwards,up-down) a vector wich represents a force with magnitud orientation and direction in the eq. from there you can know where&how is the charged particle going to move like inthe case ofan electric field wich is created by the presence of a electricly charged particle (a proton or electron) and is stronger or weaker depending on the distance Magnetic fields are created by the movement of a charged particle

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