There’s a wonderful video fragment where a journalist asks Richard Feynman, the Great Explainer, why magnets attract or repel each other. It goes on a tangent about how a minimum baseline of knowledge is required for any answer to the question “why”, to basically end with “it’s electromagnetism”.
There’s a wonderful video fragment where a journalist asks Richard Feynman, the Great Explainer, why magnets attract or repel each other. It goes on a tangent about how a minimum baseline of knowledge is required for any answer to the question “why”, to basically end with “it’s electromagnetism”.
It’s been posted as a link in this comment thread, actually. He kinda just skates around the question. Lol