Comment on Magnetism only feels like magic, because we don't have biological sensors for it
swnt@feddit.de 1 year agoFair 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 1 year ago
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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