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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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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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[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, we don't, and ICP was right. Broken clocks and all that.

We don't understand the origins of the strong force or relationship between electromagnetism and gravity.

Here, Feynman is not afraid to say we don't know at the end of a very relevant rant about magnetic attraction/repulsion.

https://youtu.be/MO0r930Sn_8?feature=shared

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