>>12394514he did explain it, to a layman, in laymen's terms. It's simply because magnets repel and he's feeling the force of the magnets.
he doesn't have time to explain all of electromagnetic theory to someone that might not have the physics background needed for understanding, and he doesn't want to give an analogy (like the rubber band analogy) because that wouldn't give a complete understanding and might leave him with an erroneous view of how it actually works.
