• Question: What do you understand about magnets?

    Asked by mixmagic to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 3 Jul 2012.
    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 3 Jul 2012:

      I little bit more than I understand about gravity, which is very little indeed.

    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 3 Jul 2012:

      I can’t really remember Maxwell’s equations, which describe the magnetic field in detail but I could look them up. I do know that they always have two poles, and that the magnetic field is continuous between the poles.

    • Photo: Philippa Bird

      Philippa Bird answered on 4 Jul 2012:

      I don’t really understand magnets, despite trying on a few occasions. At least this shows you don’t have to understand every part of science to be a scientist!

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