ELI5, why aren’t all the paper clips flying towards magnetic north but my compass is pulled anywhere in the world?

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Conversely, the moons gravity affects the largest bodies of water on earth but yet nothing else.

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In addition to magnetizing one end of the paper clip, it would need to be able to turn on its own, like a compass needle. A paper clip sitting on a table is held down by gravity. Compass needles sit on a pin or float in space juice.

As someone else mentioned, gravity ≠ magnetism. But as far as the nothing that moon’s gravity affecting nothing other than the oceans . . . I’m not so sure I agree with that premise. I mean, we do have seasons after all.

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