Is earth a magnet ?

Question

It is believed that earth is a magnet which attracts everything towards it like iron glass men etc. There is no example of any such magnet in our life that attracts all such things except iron. Then what kind of magnet it is ? This notion seems vague and it is understood that there is some other phenomenon which brings everything towards earth. What is that ?

Answer 1

Gravity!

Answer 2

There is a magnetic field to the earth, but is very weak. It's a good thing, because if it were strong, iron-rich meteorites would be attracted to earth and we'd never get anything done dodging meteorites all day.

Gravity isn't magnetism. It happens because the earth has so much mass. I don't know exactly how it works, but the following is true:

The moon has about 1/6 the mass of the earth and therefore 1/6 of the gravity, so video of astonauts jumping about and dropping slowly is explained. The earth has enough mass/gravity to keep the moon close without crashing. The moon has enough gravity to pull ocean water toward it, and this makes tides.

The sun has a LOT of mass and, if you could survive the fire and not be squished flat, you would weigh thousands of pounds on the sun.

...And you're right; magnetism only acts on objects containing iron.

Answer 3

Just like a magnetic piece of Field Controlled metal attracts iron & metal objects to it...Si it is the case with the Planet Earth...it is all together loke a controlled field that attracts ALL OBJECTS to it...and not only Iron or Metal objects...

Remember the North & South Poles...!!!

The whole earth is just like a Huge magnetic Object itself...

It is there due to its size & presence out there into that huge space...

It has its own gravity with which it attracts THINGS to it like Mediors and Commets...

Si is the case with our moon...it has its own Gravitational Force.. It can't get Earth to it because it is Bigger in size; nevertheless, the moon's Gravitational Force can have an evident effect on the LOOSE PARTS on Earth; i.e., WATER....

That's how we get the phenomenon that is called High & Law tides.....

SO, IT IS GRAVITY that we are talking about here...

Answer 4

Gosh... does the word gravity sound familiar to you?

All matter has gravity, even the teeny-weeny-est dust particles. The gravitational attraction of Earth, you see, isn't the only thing working to draw "stuff" to our planet. The stuff, itself, is trying to draw us to it as well.

Mass, however, certainly does throw it's weight around when it comes right down to this mutual attraction thing - the 'bigger" ball doesn't pay as much heed to it's tinier little friends and the result tends to look all one-sided, i.e., the object of greater mass appears to be doing ALL the gravitational attracting - but that's just not the case. All mass has gravity - that's one of Newton's laws.

Of course, the whole business has to be considerate of the other physical properties and laws of space/time, warps and motion primarily, but good ole gravity is the basic attractive force your looking for here, (I guess, you can think of it as "magnetism" if you like. For practical purposes of understanding, at least, the two, gravitation and magnetism, look and act somewhat the same.) But wowzers, the physics of gravity is a hell-of-a-look worth taking especially if you're into learning more about this super-terrific universe we live in.

Happy scientific discoveries...

()()() r u randy? ()()()
.

Answer 5

Yeah, there's this just little thing called Gravity. It just keeps the atmosphere(if you know what that) around the earth, Attracts you and other objects to the ground creating waterfalls which we use to generate electricity, the reason why the moon revolves around the earth. So it's really not important. HELLO! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? UNDER A ROCK!!!

Answer 6

it is gravity. gravitational pull is shown by all objects having mass.
yes earth is a electromagnet thats true but it has nothing to do with what you asked.

earthb acts like a magnet because of the floating, molten iron core

Answer 7

Um, i'm pretty sure it's called gravitational force.

If you drop two solid pieces of, lets say plastic for arguement's sake, the same size, weight, shape and formation, off of a building and there is no interferance from wind or any outside force, the two will pull together. It's called Gravity.

Answer 8

I believe you're talking about the Earth's gravity. The Earth's gravitational pull attracts all things toward it. ^_^

Answer 9

gravity. any two bodies exert an attractive force called gravitational force between them. it is affected by the bodies' masses and the distance between them.

it is just that the earth's mass is so great, making it seem that gravitational force doesn't exist between smaller objects, but actually they do.