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Even if you studied it, the answer boils down to “magic”.

You take these magnets, and move them around these long snakes of metal (because electrons can move easily through metal) and that makes the electrons in the wires move.

Okay, why does moving around a magnet near metal make something inside it move?

Well there’s something we call the “Lorentz force” which basically pushes a magnetic thing in a specific way if you move another magnetic thing around it

But why does that happen?

Magic

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Mchugho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It’s all attraction between opposite charge and repulsion for the same charge, even magnetism. Magnetism is just charge in another gauge.

What I mean by this is from our perspective we view a moving charged particle as emitting a magnetic field, but if you were to move along with the particle at the same speed it would be observed as being at rest and emitting an electric field.

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- atyaz@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  No it’s actually summoning demons
  
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- InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Idk man Jackson’s Classic Electrodynamics left me feeling like a jock in calculus.
  
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TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Not really though. You can say that about anything if so. If I don’t understand why atoms exist, does that make the universe “magic”?

I mean I get what you’re saying kind of, but understanding the basics of electrical power is not the stuff of sorcerers.

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