Why are magnetic things magnetic?
In: Physics
[Even award-winning physicists struggle with this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8) and that link is probably the best explanation I can think to give at an ELI5 level. Ultimately it has to do with things that you need some basis in physics to really get into at any depth that doesn’t beg the question – is that certain materials have a property that causes their electrons to all move in the same direction (namely that their outermost shell of electrons is not full) and that causes other materials with that same property to interact with it in weird ways involving the electromagnetic force.
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