Richard Feynman Magnets

Why HN readers recommended it

HN returns to it constantly as a classic on the difficulty of explaining fundamentals and the limits of analogies.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

nebulajr

Topic

explaining magnetism

Format

interview

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

20

Recommendation years in dataset

2014–2026

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From the original HN conversations

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• [VIDEO] Richard Feynman explaining magnets is one of the best layman explainers I've seen (in between the ranting). I honestly didn't understand why magnets worked and found this on a late night youtube binge. (But don't search youtube for anything related to magnets, you end …

• I'm a physicist specifically working with magnetic systems, but I have very little pre-graduate teaching experience, so take this attempt to answer the question with a grain of salt. The reason some people regard Faraday's original explanation of the eponymous law (it is worth noting …

• I appreciate it. You're absolutely right about how exciting it is to be able to share explanations with people. This is a video of Feynman's answer to an interviewer asking about what and why you feel something when you put two magnets together [VIDEO] . …