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Comment Fucking magnets, how do they work ? (Score 1) 26

The problem for me is that while I can just about convince myself that I have a mental picture of the electrons in a wire being attracted to the nuclei in a parallel wire due to their relative motion making them appear to be more densely packed because of Lorentz contraction. I can't picture what relativistic affects might come into play between two electrons, or even, say, two parallel beams of electrons, that would be ascribed to a magnetic force. If anyone can point me toward an internet resource that provides a simple explanation I'd be grateful.

Comment Re:Why not the death sentence while You're at it? (Score 1) 216

Certainly there is a place for severe punishment for horrible crimes, but this is mostly about portraying a group of people as undesirable. The UK government has a history of creating commercials that make thieves out to be subhuman, you wouldn't catch them doing the same to nefarious bankers. It's just old fashioned them and us politics. What they don't realize is that if you daemonize a hacker, she just runs in the background.

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