Think about it. Isn’t light+eyes and ears+sound just the same in terms of their “influence at a distance”? We don’t feel that as abnormal or magic - simply because we’ve sensors for them and are used to it. But physically speaking light and magnetism are based on electromagnetic forces.
You can implant a small magnet in your fingertip and then have the ability to sense magnetic fields.
It doesn’t even have to be a finger. There are so many underused parts of the body
Why do I feel called out by this comment
Any nipple can be a magnetic antenna
Finally mens nipples get something to be useful at.
I vote for mens liberation and rights for magnetic nipples!
Magnetically sensitive taint here I come!
With my luck I’d get stuck to a steel chair
Never lose a game of musical chairs tho
You stand up and the chair sticks to you like a gmod model
Don’t be gross tammy
Get ready to make friends with every TSA agent you see for the rest of your life, and pray you never need an MRI.
Fair point, but then, most people don’t have this.
And even if you do it, you need to get some experience for your brain to develop a model of what to expect in certain situations. For instance, your brain will need some time to get used to the fact, that putting our hand on a fridge will give the brain new sensory stimuli because of the magnets on the fridge.
This intuitive understanding of light and sound is just that - brain neurons being used to what to expect. And even with an implant you would need to train that.
Though I’m definitely curious to experience once how that would feel like 😄
Get a tight-fitting glove, sew some magnets onto the fingers, wear the glove for awhile.
At least that won’t be disastrous if you need an emergency mri, they’ll just take it off
And you can still go through airport security.
because we don’t have biological sensors for it
Honestly. The evidence for or against this is still far from certain.
New evidence for a human magnetic sense that lets your brain detect the Earth’s magnetic field
Fair point, I didn’t know about that. But even then, most of us don’t feel like we can feel it - and in the modern city living spaces it gets even less important to train such a sense.
I think it also feels like magic because we haven’t developed much intuition about the way magnets work. If you had thousands or millions of magnetic items in your life, you would develop that intuition, which would shatter the magic. Obviously, not being able to see or feel magnetic fields plays a big role too.
For example, ropes, strings and cables are very familiar. You have a good intuitive understanding on how they work, because you’ve used them so much. There’s nothing magical about them. Imagine what it would be like if today is the first day when you learn to tie a knot. You could do completely magical things like attach two ropes together. You could even keep a box closed by tiring a rope around it. Pretty advanced stuff.
It’s magic because unlike light or sound, we don’t really know how it works.
Fucking magnets, how do they work?
I have to disagree there regardless of how one interprets “know”.
If you mean “know intuitively”, then we don’t, precisely because we have no sensors for it and hence no experience with it. We intuitively know light, because we sense it and know what to expect in a closed room with no light source.
If you mean it scientifically, then light and magnets are extensively studied and far from “know nothing about it”. Our knowledge of light, magnetism and sound is very good on all levels.
In addition, light and magnetism is the same field. The electromagnetic field. It’s just different forms of it.
well, humans do have magnetic sensors towards each other
it’s named “attractions”
I feel like this was a joke that nobody got.
It’s a joke, but a bad one.
That is a description of emotions by analogy. Not a magnetic sensor.
And at the same time, “repulsion”.
