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How Do Magnets Work?

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What Is a Magnet?

Modern physics sees objects as being composed of fields a little bit analogous to magnetic and electric fields. In magnetism the most important field is related to light in fact to photons so magnetic field in a sense is created from photons that add together to create what we call a magnetic field.

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