It turns out that some sides of magnets will not stick together. We have forgotten this fact and rediscovered it multiple times in the last thirty minutes, and this scientific discovery is not at all appreciated.
Admittedly, I had a similar reaction to Biot-Savert’s law back in E&M. I did manage to not throw things at the time.
“that’s because magnets are violently homophobic”
May I suggest a snack and/or a nap. My little one went mental for little things when he was hungry
Is this advice for OP? Or for the toddler they are watching? Or both? I mean, nobody can really go wrong having a snack and a nap.
There’s studies showing adults too are more generous/reasonable after eating something and much less generous or reasonable when hungry.
They were looking at judges. You really want a verdict after lunch.
They’ve used this to try and schedule meetings with Trump when he’s the most agreeable and focused.
Then they should probably try for times after he’s eaten a giant hamberder and just come out of a pre teen pageant dressing room
I’m not even involved, but I’d take a snack and a nap
That’s the normal reaction to learning electromagnetism.
This is literally why my degree is not technically in physics.
Griffith and quantum? Fine. But this shit
“I’d kill for the chance to go back to fucking statics!”
One reason I actually gave up being a grad student.
Be a good example and stop throwing the magnets!
Sounds like a good opportunity to make a philosophical point, maybe about opposites attracting or that sometimes people don’t like each other because they’re too similar.
Not sure we are cognitively at that level yet. We are now watching Bluey’s dad pretend to give birth, and periodically remembering that water is in the sippy cup instead of the desired juice. This is so unpleasant that it has merited physical assault and temporary loss of liberty.
Well, you could try painting one face on the positive side of each and a different on on the negative sides. Might amuse them if nothing else.
I guess too young for Feynman’s sitdown discussion on why magnets are how they are, but maybe in a few years you can blow their mind with the idea that magnets repelling each other is very much related to why things feel solid to us. Or Sagan’s bit about how atoms (and thus matter itself ) are mostly nothing at all.
To be fair, “I don’t wanna talk to a scientist, y’all motherfuckers lying and getting me pissed” is an entirely reasonable reaction to trying to set up a surface integral.
