Richard Feynman. Why.

If you grab two magnets and push them, you can feel this push between them, you turn the other way and they collide now, what is the sensation between those two magnets? What are you talking about? What is the feeling between the two magnets? something is not there, I mean the feeling is that there is something there when you put these two magnets together listen to my question, what is the meaning when you say there is a feeling, of course you feel it now, what do you want? to know what I want to know is what is happening between these two pieces of metal, these two pieces of metal repel each other and well, then what does that mean, but what does that mean or why are they doing that or how are they doing it. ask I have to say that I think it's a perfectly reasonable question, of course, it's a reason, it's a great question, okay, but the problem you're asking is when you ask why something happens, how does a person answer why it happens? something, for example, Aunt Minnie?

He's in a hospital why because he slipped he went out and he slipped on the ice and he broke his hip that satisfies him people satisfies but it wouldn't satisfy someone who came from another planet didn't know anything about things you first understand why when you break the hip you go to the hospital like you get to the hospital with when the hip is broken well because when her husband saw that her hip was broken he called the hospital and sent someone to look for her everything that is understood by People now, when you explain why, you have to be within some framework that allows something to be true, otherwise you constantly wonder why the husband called the hospital because the husband is interested in his wife's well-being, some husbands are not always interested.

You're not interested in his partner, when they're drunk and angry, then you start to get a very interesting understanding of the world and all its complications, so if you try to follow something, you go deeper and deeper. several directions if, for example, you could go to all of them, why did she slip on the ice? Well, the ice is slippery. Everyone knows it's okay, but you ask why the ice is slippery. It's something curious. The ice is extremely slippery. It's very interesting. You say how it works. Could you see so you could say I'm pleased that you answered me the ice is slippery that explains it or you could go ahead and say why the ice is slippery and then you're involved in something because there's not a lot of things.

As slippery as ice, it's very difficult to get greasy stuff, but that's something wet and viscous, but a solid is so slippery because in the case of ice, when you stand on it, they say that momentarily the pressure melts the ice a little bit. . you have a kind of instantaneous water surface on which you slide why on ice and not on other things because ice expands when water expands when it freezes then the pressure tries to undo the expansion and it melts it is able to melt it but Other substances contract when they freeze and when you push them they are equally satisfied to be solid.

Why does water expand when it freezes and other substances don't expand when they freeze? Well, I'm not answering your question. but I'm telling you how difficult the question of why is: you have to know what you are allowed to understand and allow yourself to be understood and known and what you are not. You'll notice in this example that the more I ask why it becomes interesting after that is my idea that the deeper a thing is, the more interesting it is and uh, we could even go further and say why did it fall when it slipped, That has to do with the gravity that involves all the planets. and everything else, it doesn't matter, goes on and on when you ask, for example, why two chargers repel each other, there are many different levels, it depends on whether you are a physics student or an ordinary person who knows nothing or not.

You are someone who doesn't know anything about anything. What I can say is that there is a magnetic force that makes them repel each other and that you are feeling that force, you say, but that is very strange because I don't feel that kind of force. so in other circumstances, when you turn them in the other direction, they attract each other, there is a very analogous Electric Force, which is the same type of question and you say that it is also very strange, but you are not at all bothered by the fact that when you put your hand on the chair pushes you back, but when we look at it we discover that it is the same Force, in fact, the electrical force is not exactly magnetic in that case, but they are the same electrical repulsions that intervene when holding the finger. away from the chair because everything is made of electrical forces in minor microscopic details, there are other forces involved, but this is connected to electrical forces, it turns out that the magnetic force and the electric force that I want to explain these things, this repulsion in the first place is what is ultimately the deepest thing we have to start with.

We can begin to explain many other things that seemed to be things. Everyone would just accept them. You know, you can't put your hand across the chair that's taken for granted, but. that you cannot put your hand through the chair when you look closer why it involves these same repulsive forces that appear in magnets the situation that you then have to explain is why and the magnets travel a greater distance than normal and there It has to do with the fact that in iron all the electrons spin in the same direction, they all line up and magnify the effect of the force until it is large enough at a distance that you can feel it, but it is a force that is present. all the time and is very common and has a basic strength of almost.

I mean, I can go back a little bit more if I were more technical, but on an initial level I just have to tell you that that's going to be one of the things that you're going to encounter. You will only have to take as an element in the world the existence of magnetic repulsion or electrical attraction electric attraction magnetic attraction I cannot explain that attraction in terms of anything else that is familiar to you, for example, if we said that magnets attract each other as if they were connected by elastic bands I would be misleading you because they are not connected by elastic bands I should have no problems soon you would ask me about the nature of the bands and secondly if you were curious enough you would ask me why the elastic bands tend to come together again and I would end up explaining that in terms of electrical forces, which are precisely the things I'm trying to explain with rubber bands, so I've cheated a lot, you see, so I'm not going to be able to give you an answer as to why magnets attract each other except for tell you that they do and tell you that that is one of the elements in the world of different types of forces, there are electrical forces, magnetic forces, gravitational forces and others and those are some of the parts, if you were a student you would go further.

I could go further. I could tell you that magnetic forces are very closely related to electrical forces and that our relationship between gravitational forces and electrical forces remains unknown. and so on, but I can't really do a good job of explaining the magnetic force in terms of anything else you're most familiar with because I don't understand it in terms of anything else you're most familiar with anyway.