Friday, April 01, 2005

Poisson D'Avril

Thought number three: What is magnetism? Current physical theory suggests that it consists in the swapping of photons between relevant particles or atoms. Just how does this account for magnetism? What counts as an explanation here? The phenomonological account of the magnetic behavior of objects has given us much useful knowledge about what we can expect from the world, but is there a deeper kind of explanation that gives some further account of why magnetism works the way it does? What about gravity or the other fundamental forces?

Thought number 4: Friends got me an iPod shuffle for my birthday- it's heaps of fun- they are good friends- friends are great....