Over the holidays, I had a lovely conversation with a research physicist at a dinner party. I travel in weird circles- by which I mean his parents live next door to my parents. In any case, at some point the conversation turned to superconducting magnets, his line of work. When he went to describe them, he couldn’t wait to ask “Do you know how magnets work?” Good news, my scientist friend- I do not! “Well, each magnet is made up of many tiny magnets.” I’m not going to lie to you, that wasn’t what I was hoping for. I’m not going to say that that non-answer crushed me- but it didn’t NOT crush me, if you catch my drift.
Where Do Stars Come From?
