why does the magnet always have north and south poles?

Answer 1

Cause God said so.

Answer 2

We cannot give a definite reason why magnets were "designed" to have poles.
We can only talk about what the poles really are, how they relate to the
magnet. For a magnet to affect the world around it, magnetic field extends
from the magnet to the world. That magnetic field must eventually come back
to the magnet. Magnetic fields always form complete loops. Where most of
the magnetic field lines comes out of the magnet is called the north-seeking
pole. Where they enter back into the magnet is called the south-seeking
pole. Nobody has ever discovered a magnetic field line that doesn't form a
complete circle, though many scientists have tried. If you should ever find
such a thing, you will have discovered a "magnetic monopole".

Answer 3

Why there is a curious George ?

A long long time ago it was called a load-stone - no one knew what magnets are. They probably did not know what north or south meant or if it had any relation to earth's magnetic north or south.

It's history in the making and its called evolution.

As we get better - we human being assign the names and functions etc. to get a better understanding of the natural phenomenon that exist anyway.

Same way there are probably lots of things yet to be discovered and we will assign it a name.

Answer 4

It's called properties of matter.More over,a uni pole ie a single pole can't exist by itself(another property) and for it to be a magnet,both pole must exist in it.The next question could be,why there is magnetism?

Answer 5

They have two poles and we name them for our use and we name the directions as north south east and west for our use and even we named pole as pole for our convenient

Answer 6

Because that is where the flux lines (the lines of magnetic force) meet and curve

Answer 7

Because there are only 2 poles

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