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Here's what Calvin's picture is saying:

If mistakes are not recognized, it's not science.
If mistakes are not corrected, it's really bad science.
If mistakes are not made, it's bad science.
If mistakes are made, recognized, and corrected, it's good science.

Scientific developement is just a series of "Ohh, what does this do?" "Oops!" and "I bet you won't _______!"

No no no, its a series of "if i put (highly explosive material) with (substance that will set off the explosive) together, what will happen?"



Tick tick tick...KABOOM!!!

"all in the name of science"

That would be able to fit in any of my categories.........

How EXACTLY does magnetism work. I understand what it does and how it's made and all, but it makes no sense whatsoever as to how it works.

Heres an idea: dont ask questions that you wont get a good answer to, and probably never will.

Forger, you will be suprised. Supa and Mage are incredibly knowledgeable on stuff like this and I'm far from stupid. Chances are, I will get a good answer.

Why would you say that? They've answered a good many questions before.

Why, in the name of the Builder, dont you just GOOGLE IT!!!!

Because nearly every site explains it like I'm five or only explains the parts I already know. Supa and Mage are far more reliable.

How? surely it is easier to understand the 5-year-old way? and how could you not know about such a basic principle? electro-magnetism is far more challenging.

I understand the before and after of magnetism, but I have no clue about the during.
I hate being talked to like a child. It's very demeaning.
I find electromagnetism much simpler.

Stop fricking bickering! I come home from practice to see that my thread is a pointless argument!? >.>

I'm not a lazy couch potato, I'm an active sports player... That's where I disappear to.

Magnetism: property of materials in which they respond at an atomic or subatomic level to an applied magnetic field.

Now in English: the force where objects are attracted or repelled to one another.

Now, what exactly do we want? electromagnetism, magnets?

well, thats a start. i hope...

Master, do you have a problem with either dragon or me?

It is a start, briefing (like in the military) now, I get my specific question, then I explain. Please contribute positively if you wish to be a part of this thread, this isn't a place to argue and make sarcastic and/or hurtful comments. Don't tell another user not to ask a question, thinking that I won't care, yet alone one of my friends. Thank you...

Now magnetic fields:
-A magnetic field consists of imaginary lines of flux coming from moving or spinning electrically charged particles.
-What a magnetic field actually consists of is somewhat of a mystery, but we do know it is a special property of space.


If I understand your question, you want to know what is happening during, correct?

Well, either attraction or repelling, in short.

But how does it exert the ranged force? It seems to defy logic as to the attraction of opposite poles.