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

Originally Posted by Xaqaria

Your explanation is almost exactly what the current explanation actually is, except instead of torsons, its electrons. Just sayin....

To be honest this is a pretty bizarre post. tommo basically said 'torsons'. In what sense is that an explanation of anything, haha... he didn't even define what a torson is or wtf it does.

Originally Posted by Xaqaria

well................ I'm not going to argue with an incredibly vague reference but magnetism in a ferrous metalmatter is associated with the alignment of the electrons in the metalobject. We could get into a whole discussion about the symmetry of fundamental particles, photoelectric effects and the unification of electromagnetism but.... no. All I'll say is;

I thought magnetic fields are caused by any moving charge (so a stream of protons would do it)... and the magnetic field around a wire is caused by the movement of electrons, not their alignment... photons are always the carriers though (the force being electromagnetic).

I'm only just starting Maxwell's equations so I could be wrong.