The charge of an object is the strength of its coupling to the electromagnetic field
This does not answer the question.
Coupling? what dose this mean?
Answering questions with questions.
A visual tool used by Michael Faraday.
What exactly do they represent?
Have you read any texts that deal specifically with the subject?
There are detailed accounts of what electromagnetism is and how magnetism arises out of this force.
What level of explanation would satisfy you?
I have pointed out the nature of this topic.
Aganoth's question has been ignored.
I apreciate your responses and learning a level of understanding of how magnetism works is quite interesting, however it's fundamental cause and how it came into being is the question.
We know many things about it but this we do not know.
If you would answer in the context: "This is what we currently understand" It would be more appropriate however, the condensed answer still is, fundamentally, "we do not know".
Edited by 2ice_baked_taters, : No reason given.