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Richard Feynman on Why Explaining Magnets Is Difficult

nebulajr · Interview · YouTube title: Richard Feynman Magnets
Why it's here

HN returns to it constantly as a classic on the difficulty of explaining fundamentals and the limits of analogies.

What it covers

A short clip of Richard Feynman answering an interviewer's question about how magnets work, in which he explains why a why-question has no simple answer without a shared frame of reference.