magnetic

[Madeleine Maudlin]

I was looking into plasma.  Who knew about plasma?  I don't think it was
ever in school.  Must be new.  Who knew that you could have immense storms
of free unattached electrons?  Skies the limit.  Imagine this entire solar
system once being in a magnificent plasma cloud.  Badda-bing, badda-boom,
you'd get things done.  Might explain how Mars has obviously been
blitzkrieged by unholy balls of lightning somewhere in its past.

Anyway I felt dumb so I decided on a refresher course on the basics, and if
you want basic common "undisputed" knowledge then you go to wiki.  I wikied
magnetic, always kind of a mystery to me, and it's one of the biggies (my
mission is to know what, say, a radiation wave *consists* of, what the wave
*is*, if it comes from an electron, is it a different substance, I can
handle an electron, it's a tiny blob in space, but one electron creates a
million hertz wave or more? etc.  On wiki Magnetic redirects to Magnetism.
 Check it out: I read the first eight paragraphs, and *not one* sentence
does *not* use the base term magnetic.  All simple sentences, and some even
record magnetic twice...

That doesn't help my dumbness.
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