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To: calex59
Magnetism and electricity are NOT the same thing.

Yes they are. It's called electromagnetism for that reason.
22 posted on 08/16/2009 11:18:33 AM PDT by allmost
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To: allmost

That’s funny!


26 posted on 08/16/2009 11:23:48 AM PDT by bigbob
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Well....mmmm, place a copper wire in a magnetic field, with the wire motionless, measure the voltage generated, no, your volt meter isnt broken...there is no voltage, unless the wire is moving....
29 posted on 08/16/2009 11:33:08 AM PDT by thinking
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To: allmost
Yes they are. It's called electromagnetism for that reason.

Magnets have the power to move electrons. They are not the same thing. In fact moving two magnets past each other creates no electricity. It creates magnetic flux. Holding a wire between two magnets creates no electricity.

Magnetism and electricity are not the same thing. There are ways of creating electricity without magnets.

43 posted on 08/16/2009 11:55:51 AM PDT by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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If electomagnetism means electricity and magnetism are the same, then explain hydrophobia.


60 posted on 08/16/2009 1:29:37 PM PDT by Hazwaste (Liberals love the average American the same way that foxes love the average chicken.)
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To: allmost
Yes they are. It's called electromagnetism for that reason.

So where is the electricity in a stationary magnet?

75 posted on 08/16/2009 2:22:07 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts
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Yes they are. It's called electromagnetism for that reason.

Well sort of true. A moving electrical charge produces a "B" field (magnetic). A time variant "B" field produces an "E" field which produces another "B" field and so on ad infinitum. What we call electromagnet radiation is comprised of these two "Janus" like fields. Though they are each an independent phenomenon you can never have one without the other. Think of it like Siamese twins, they are two separate things but always found together. The alternating interaction of the E and B vector fields are viewed as a wave of EM radiation (radio, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays, &c, differing only in frequency & energy) which travels through the vacuum of space.

To further muddy the waters, what you see, "E" field, "B" field, or both together depends upon your frame of reference relative to the EM wave. In the blink of an eye you are wading through the "Special Theory of Relativity" and quantum mechanics...

Regards,
GtG

116 posted on 08/17/2009 10:22:19 AM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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