If electricity can be used to create a magnet/electromagnet, why can’t a magnet be used to create electricity without it moving?
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Well the electricity has to be “moving” in order to create the electromagnet, so if you’re looking for semantic fairness, you’ll find it in that. But more specifically, it is the movement of electrons that induces an electromagnetic field, and thereby a magnet, not the mere presence of a difference in charges. Putting a battery next to a bar of iron does not make the iron magnetic. You’d need to wrap it in a coil, and then let the charge flow through that coil to do that.
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