Drawing of a magnetic field by French philosopher René Descartes, from his Principia Philosophiae, 1644.
What’s the connection between motion and magnetism? How can something like a black hole have a magnetic field? What’s the connection to quantum mechanics? How did Einstein use magnetism to develop special relativity? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!
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