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Calling All Athiests (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The most mind-blowing moment I've ever had was the course Relativistic Electrodynamics.

If you assume static electricity (charges attract or repel), then apply special relativity to see what the situation looks like to an observer travelling by, you get magnetism!

Turns out half of Maxwell's laws is a direct consequence of the other half once you know about special relativity.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

How Special Relativity Makes Magnets Work

Isn’t space time curvature fun?

It has me so choked uo my throat is sore. Somebody pass me a Lorentz

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

That is why they can be written really neatly in a relativistic formulation, but look fucked up in a classical one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yes! Finally someone else who is amazed by this! It's crazy to think, that magnetism can be understood as nothing more than a relativistic phenomenon.