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>>qqqqqu+(OP)
I don't know if this would be my "one question" if I could ask the most brilliant minds in science, but something that always bothered me:

When I took physics they basically said "at first scientists were disturbed by the fact that magnets imply that two objects are interacting without any physical contact, but then Faraday came along and said 'the magnets are actually connected by invisible magnetic field lines' and that resolved everything."

How does saying "but what if there's invisible lines connecting them" resolve anything? To be clear, I'm not objecting to any of the actual electromagnetic laws or using field lines to visualize magnetic fields. It's just that I don't get how invoking invisible lines actually explains anything about how objects are able to react without physical contact.

(Also, it is not lost on me I that this question boils down to "fraking magnets, how do they work?")

>>harima+Mz
This, gravity, and quantum mechanics, I think are things that people just accept as is, I don't think anyone really knows how or why it works, it just works. It could be that our brains are not wired to understand how two things can be pulling each other without anything physically connecting them. My knee jerk explanation is that we live in a simulation, and that the simulation is not in anything like a physical world, and we are just not wired to grasp it, just like an ant won't be able to learn learn calculus.