Why Do Magnets Attract at a Fundamental Level - A Quantum Mechanical Explanation

Why Do Magnets Attract at a Fundamental Level - A Quantum Mechanical Explanation

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0:00 What's the magnetic force?

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0:00 What's the magnetic force?

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Why Do Magnets Attract at a Fundamental Level - A Quantum Mechanical Explanation

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  1. 1 0:00 What's the magnetic force?
  2. 2 0:46 Going deep into a magnet
  3. 3 1:33 Quantum property of spin
  4. 4 2:35 How does a material become a magnet
  5. 5 3:28 Standard explanation for magnetism
  6. 6 4:27 Quantum ElectroDynamics - virtual photons
  7. 7 7:26 Down the Rabbit Hole of Quantum Mechanics
  8. 8 8:52 Pauli Exclusion Principle
  9. 9 10:08 Why do only SOME material become magnetic
  10. 10 11:23 Exchange interactions
  11. 11 12:40 Wavefunction interference at the heart of magnetism
  12. 12 15:00 Summarization of everything

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