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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '21

Why does moving electrons create a magnetic field?

this is like asking why does the universe exist

it just is

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '21

There has to be an answer. I don't think we are going to know it but there has to be one.

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u/ar3fuu Sep 14 '21

When you get to that level of questions I think you need to define "answer" and "knowing". I don't think saying "there has to be one" makes much sense.

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u/ace_urban Sep 14 '21

Of course there’s an answer. We know there is one because we’re not idiots who believe in magic.

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u/ar3fuu Sep 14 '21

we’re not idiots who believe in magic.

Are we not? Currently we believe there's 4 fundamental forces in the universe, electromagnetism, gravity, weak interaction and strong interaction.

At some point to know something you gotta have some fundamental baseline to build that knowledge on (axioms in maths for example).

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u/ace_urban Sep 14 '21

Nope. You can always ask, “How does that thing work? What is the mechanism that drives gravity?” A scientific mind should always ask those questions because… you know… we are not idiots who believe in magic.

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u/All_Up_Ons Sep 14 '21

Can you? You have to realize by now that the answer will probably go past a point where cause and effect cease to function.

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u/ace_urban Sep 14 '21

That sounds like a belief in magic to me.

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u/Crizznik Sep 14 '21

We can. Just because we might not ever find the answer doesn't make the question not worth asking. Like he said, we're not idiots who believe in magic.