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Richard Feynman Magnets
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A short clip of Richard Feynman answering an interviewer's question about how magnets work, in which he explains why a why-question has no simple answer without a shared frame of reference.
HN returns to it constantly as a classic on the difficulty of explaining fundamentals and the limits of analogies.
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