The magnetic mystery
Discovery
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The History of Magnetism
Modern understanding of the world is by what's called quantum field theory. But historically it was to avoid this idea of action as a distance. We first realized that magnetism was a thing when we started looking at stones and how they were affected by the environment. One of the first stones that we realized was magnetic was a load stone. A rock made of metal oxide, iron oxide and iron of course is magnetic.
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