>>12588773Unfortunately you've got magnetization mixed up with electric polarization! Also, static electricity like in your picture is not a magnetic effect.
And what you said about electrons and protons not colliding isn't really true. Electrons and protons interact all the time in ways that aren't beta decay or inverse beta decay.
>>12588219Magnetism is probably one of the hardest everyday phenomena to understand. The easiest way I can explain it is this: magnetic fields come from three places:
- The movement of electric charge
- Changing an electric field over time
- The intrinsic magnetic moment of particles, called "spin."
The effects that a magnetic field has are these:
-A changing magnetic field creates a perpendicular electric field
-Charged particles moving in a magnetic field feel a force perpendicular to both the field and the direction they are moving
-Particle spins align along the magnetic field
This is all a little mysterious, but you might notice that somehow, the idea of electrical fields and charges and the idea of movement seem to be relevant at all stages. But "movement" is relative- how fast something is going depends on your frame of reference. This is a clue that relativity is involved! In fact, for any electric and magnetic field, at a point, you can always find a reference frame where you have either only a magnetic or only an electric field. So if you feel like you can understand electric fields, a good way to think about magnetic fields is as electric fields + relativity!
Permanent magnetism (also called "ferromagnetism") is where all the spins of the particles that make up an object are pointing in the same direction. This is stable, because if you flip one of them the wrong way, it'll want to align with everyone else again. The way you magnetize something in the first place is to expose it to a strong enough magnetic field to force everything into alignment.
