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> This is however the tip of the iceberg. The real mystery is how those electrons and protons feel each other.

Is it any more mysterious then how our planet 'feels' the presence of the Sun, through the gravitational force, despite being 150,000,000 kilometers away?



Do you consider the mechanism through which gravitational effects propagate mundane?


I mean, it is a magical field that seems to surround every single observable object (and some otherwise unobservable ones) that propagates at the speed of light. On that scale of weird, magnetism is not particularly special.


The two are very similar in this regard.




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