Tuesday, 8 January 2008

Fatal Attraction

Today, I have played with magnets.

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Magnets are magical: the strange, inexplicable, invisible forces that are involved in the attraction of one lump to another. Okay, so maybe there’s many forces like that – gravity, love? But none so easily and tangibly observed as this.

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The mystery of the unexplained interactions is fascinating. Okay, so maybe there’s a law of physics behind it; it’s not so bizarrely baffling. Still, I think magnets are fantastic. I like to pretend it’s the scientist in me, but of course, it’s really the child in me that gets wowed so readily by such a simple phenomenon.

On the jukebox:
The Foundations ~ Build Me Up Buttercup

3 comments:

  1. There's a man who I often seen frequenting the streets of town selling what I presume to be magnets. He throws them up in the air and they make this funny noise...I would phonetically spell it out but its just a weird sound. Anyway, I like it :oD

    I used to love playing with iron filings and magnets, make all sorts of pretty patterns - and usually a mess too. There was something that always fascinated me when you put the two same polars of the magnets together and feel them pushing against each other - amused me for hours at primary schoool...

    Great first pic
    xxxx

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  2. me likey new blog. very different. but I can go with it.

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  3. I heart magnets. They're so exciting!! Hope all is good :) xx

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