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From: chrislee@netcom.com (Christopher A. Lee)
Subject: Re: See me, hear me, feel me, touch me.
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In article <D7z1up.G5u@jack.sns.com> mvalley@jack.sns.com (Michael Valley) writes:
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>This really does not PROVE magnetism. How do you know that magnetism caused
>the magnet to attract the iron nail? Maybe it was an invisible elf that
>brought the two together? I think this is what the original poster tried to 
>touch on... You can see the effects of magnetism, but can you see magnetism?

Duh.....

Magnetism exists because it was the name given to the observed fact that 
certain things pull towards each other under certain circumstances.

The effect was noticed *then* the name given to it.

>Mike

Chris

