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minus-squarewedeworps@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down1·10 months agoWhat that teacher probably wanted to say was that, while we can explain how magnetism works, no one can tell you why it happens.
minus-squaregens@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·10 months agoFeynman on magnets and these kind of questions.
minus-squareMuchPineapples@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoNature doesn’t have a reason to do things. There’s no ‘why’ in anything, other than ‘the laws of physics make it do so’.
minus-squaremadejackson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 months agoFor completeness, we cannot say for sure if we even exist. The universe could very well just be an imagination and nothing really matters, including the laws of physics and our understanding of magnets.
minus-squaremiss_brainfart@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoIn this year alone, I’ve had so many things happen that just scream we live in a simulation, it genuinely wouldn’t even surprise me if it was true. Either way, nature is our one true god.
What that teacher probably wanted to say was that, while we can explain how magnetism works, no one can tell you why it happens.
Feynman on magnets and these kind of questions.
Nature doesn’t have a reason to do things. There’s no ‘why’ in anything, other than ‘the laws of physics make it do so’.
For completeness, we cannot say for sure if we even exist. The universe could very well just be an imagination and nothing really matters, including the laws of physics and our understanding of magnets.
In this year alone, I’ve had so many things happen that just scream we live in a simulation, it genuinely wouldn’t even surprise me if it was true.
Either way, nature is our one true god.