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Richard Feynman: Magnets and Why Questions
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A clip from a BBC interview in which Richard Feynman is asked why magnets repel and attract. He explains that "why" questions depend on what a person already accepts as fundamental.
Cited whenever a discussion turns to how hard it is to answer "why" questions or what counts as an explanation.
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