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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Feynman actually did try to explain

Not in that particular interview which was very annoying. Feynman knew magnetism better than most people on the planet and instead of explaining it, he went off on the reporter for a badly phrased question.

He could have explained that magnetism and the electric field are the exact same thing seen from different reference frames. Instead he spent 5 minutes on why the reporter's question was stupid.