Thread: What are your favourite simple things that science just cannot explain?

To be honest the basis of magnets is pretty close to the fundamentals of physics. Magnetism is just something that happens; it's a law, or axiom, like the constancy of the speed of light. It can't be explained.

Originally Posted by Xei

To be honest the basis of magnets is pretty close to the fundamentals of physics. Magnetism is just something that happens; it's a law, or axiom, like the constancy of the speed of light. It can't be explained.

Not ever? Not even someday?

Originally Posted by Xei

Hi there. You're basically living in a continuation of Ancient Greece that started with the Renaissance. Enjoy your stay.

And the Greek culture and philosophy was basically a continuation of the Indo/European fertile crescent/Egyptian and Indian Buddhist philosophies.