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What exactly is a magnetic field-is it a SuperNatural Force ?

For example, at school you may have performed an experiment designed to prove the existence of a magnetic field. It may go like this: Sprinkle iron filings on a sheet of paper. Then place the sheet over the magnet. When the sheet is vibrated, as if by magic the iron p. 27filings bunch up near the magnet’s poles and form into the pattern of the magnetic field. If you did that, could you actually see the magnetic field? No, but its effect on the iron filings is plain to see, giving you convincing proof that magnetism exists.

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Magnetic field IS a supernatural force It is a mathematical description of the magnetic influence of electric currents and magnetic materials. It is made up of moving electric charges and the intrinsic magnetic moments of elementary particles associated with a fundamental quantum property, their spin. See how easy that was, I didn't get a master's degree for nothing. I know what's in every book in every library in the world--WORDS. But many say, Jehovah's witnesses are ignorant and uneducated. And I'm not insulted by that, most people are misled; and especially by various religions! By the way did you know, the pigeon is a strong, swift flier, able to reach speeds of over 80 km/hr (50 mph). Its homing instinct caused it to be used for carrying messages from early times. Unlike human navigators who must use chronometers and sextants to determine their position, homing pigeons almost instantly know--by sensing the earth’s magnetic field and from the position of the sun--which direction to fly, even though released in strange territory hundreds of kilometers from their homesite. They automatically allow for the movement of the sun across the sky so that the angle of their flight does not err. Years ago my husband used to photograph homing pigeons to see their release, and which one crossed the finish line first. Jehovah is an awesome God, isn't He?
magnetism is the same force as electricity.its still simply the principle that opposite charges attract, but when force is defined in terms of relativity you get magnetism. Newtonian (simplified) force: fma (m mass, aacceleration) Relativity (correct) force: fma/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) (vvelocity, cspeed of light in a vacuum) combined with the velocity of spinning electrons you can get tremendous scaling of the electrical force which allow it act at a further distance than could be explained in Newtonian physics. in general a field is simply a mapping of a unique vector on every point on a space.in this case it is an acceleration vector, and the source is some magnetic force. So a field is simply an abstraction used to facilitate calculations, and requires no explanation.I took the liberty of assuming you meant to ask what the magnetic force comes from

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