Scientist ask people to have "faith" in their explanation of Magnetism ?

Question

The following is a scientific explanation of the theory of magnetism:

"magnetic field consists of imaginary lines of flux coming from moving or spinning electrically charged particles.

Examples include the spin of a proton and the motion of electrons through a wire in an electric circuit.

What a magnetic field actually consists of is somewhat of a mystery, but we do know it is a special property of space."

So, it requires "faith" to except its mysterious existance.?

P, you ask if I have seen,and then answer for me with a "didn't think so".
I'll drink with you anyway, *toasts*

Answer 1

Not bad.

GOD bless

Answer 2

The definition above is actually accepted theory as scientists know that they do not yet have the technology to empirically prove that this is so. The fact is that you can see magnetic attraction (and it's opposite reaction) fairly easily with two any two magnets, but you cannot see the field.

Most science is based on theory with some factual evidence. This doesn't mean you need faith - you accept the fact within as it is and you leave room for further hypotheses to be proved or disproved as technological advances occur which will put aside what once was fact and create new fact. Your knowledge, not faith, grows with the advancements (and in the scientific world failures are often advancements) in the theory.

Answer 3

A typical mistake made by those who do not understand science.

See, those "imaginary lines of flux" are simply a visual picture that can help you understand magnetic fields. They're not supposed to be real, and nobody's asking you to have "faith" in them. Just like nobody's asking you to have "faith" in magnetism (or gravity, or evolution, or anything else from science).
You want to test magnetism? Go do the experiments yourself. Such tests are repeatable by anyone, anytime, anywhere -- and they always give the same result. You can do the same tests Maxwell did to establish the reality of magnetism -- you don't have to have "faith." Unlike religious myth and superstition.

Oh, and we *do* know what a magnetic field actually consists of -- did you get that explanation from a 50-year-old book, or perhaps a religious leader? See, science moves pretty quick, always learning more and more -- ya gotta keep up! :)

Peace.

Answer 4

All knowledge is like this. Successive approximations of behavior using models. Newton described gravity pretty well, then Einstein improved it further. So we can fling space craft between the planets with terrible precision. But ask one more question, what force is it? We do not know. The standard model predicts thousands of subatomic particles and these are discovered every year so we feel better and better about the standard model, --yet it does not explain gravity.

There are better explanations then these. You need to look to physics rather than electronics for better explanations. After going through the equations for magnetic moments you may see that the math works. It models pretty well, but it is still successive degrees of accuracy of modeling.

The link may satisfy your interest.

Answer 5

Waking up and crossing the road hoping a car won't come out of nowhere and kill me requires faith.
I just look both ways and see that no cars are coming and thats evidence for my faith. Scientists have seen the spin of a proton and the motion of electrons through a wire in a circuit.

Have you seen whatever God you believe in? didn't think so... and before i forget

Answer 6

You can see, feel and prove magnetism. I have an electronics engineering degree and I have learned enough to agree with magnetism. I am also a liscensed aircaft mechanic and the theory of flight is hard for some to believe but for me it is easy.

Answer 7

Magnestism, gravity and electricity are examples of properties of matter. They are not objects. It is by studying and observing them that we can apply them to our advantage and make so many useful instruments, like the computer on which my words appear. Their existence is not in question.

The fact that atomic forces, for example, require more study, more experiments to be fully understood does not place them in the supernatural world of mysticism. They are all safe and well-placed in the confines of the world of science.

Answer 8

magnetism is also found in every living organism, if we were to live in space then we would need magnets to survive. NASA found out what happens when humans leave the earths magnetic field for long durations, we get sick.

Answer 9

Just sprinkle some iron fillings around a magnet. you can then see the magnetic field. No faith required.

Answer 10

Stephen Hawking explains this very eloquently:

"I take the positivest viewpoint that a physical theory is just a mathematical model and that it is meaningless to ask whether it corresponds to reality. All that one can ask is that its predictions should be in agreement with observation."
-Stephen Hawking

Answer 11

Different kind of faith, sunshine. Having faith that talking to a 2000 year old Jewish zombie will grant you an eternal afterlife is a lot different to observing a scientific process in action and forming a hypothesis that is backed up by further experimentation.