You (probably) wouldn't ask "But why does an atom weigh anything?" or "why do opposite charges attract?" All these things are just intrinsic properties of matter: they just have them.

So the answer to questions regarding why anything has mass/charge/magnetic moment really come down to "they just do."

Now, if you want to talk about how and why magnets work at a macroscopic scale, we can have a long and interesting chat about long range ordering and phase transitions, but I'll leave that for now :)

[–] jnoliv@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

This reminded me of Richard Feynman talking about this very topic. Always enjoy rewatching it.

https://youtu.be/MO0r930Sn_8

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

I love watching Feynman prove icp right.

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