Hanno might be including magnetic forces, too, but in what I've read so far I've only seen mention of electrostatic forces.
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It is really suprising that cosmologists pay so little attension to electricity. We know there is magnitism in the universe, and it is common knowledge that magnetism and electrisism goes together.
We can get to electrostatic forces next but I'd like to get magnetism out of the way first.
Percy writes:
A magnet capable of supporting a 1 pound weight from a distance of 4000 miles away would exert a pull on the same object of 16 million pounds at a distance of 1 mile.
That sounds like a fairly major force. So if there was a magnet what could exert force on the iron core of the earth across a distance of 93,000,000 miles do you think we would be able to detect it?
Also, would we expect the magnetic field of the earth to align in relation to that other magnet?
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