Comment on Magnetism only feels like magic, because we don't have biological sensors for it
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 11 months ago
because we don't have biological sensors for it
That may not 100% correct.
New evidence for a human magnetic sense that lets your brain detect the Earth’s magnetic field
swnt@feddit.de 11 months ago
Fair point, I didn’t know about that. But even then, most of us don’t feel like we can feel it - and in the modern city living spaces it gets even less important to train such a sense.
oo1@kbin.social 11 months ago
source of sorts
Earth's field is very large and very weak compared to small strong household magnets.
Whatever senses we've evolved for navigation could be dealing in a completely different scales so as to be useless.
It might be like trying to use a 5ml teaspoon to measure the volume liquid in a of a bathtub.
or using an alcohol thermometer to measure the temperature of molten iron