This is getting a little Outrageous ;)

However, just to confuse everyone... I once observed a TRIPOLAR magnet.

It literally had 2 North poles and one South Pole approximately 2/3 of the
way down the bar, (yes it was one of those bar magnets we used at school)

People don't really understand field.

Probably because it is so.... invisible, indescribeable etc.

Physicists simply say that field is an area (of interest) in which every
point has a value. (parenthesis are mine).

What that value measures, determines the type of field.

So if we have a field of electromagnetic potential, we will find that
at every location there is a polar attraction/repulsion value that
indicates the STRENGTH of the field at that point. When we graph points of
similar potential, we find that the lines we generate do not cross.

We call such graphed lines of equi-magnetic potential magnetic flux lines.

The Field that surrounds the magnet, is often called the Flux of the
magnet as a result.

Because we cannot measure the magnetic flow within the magnet as easily as
the magnetic flow outside, we seldom discuss flux in a magnet.However it
does exist.

The question should always be, What exactly is flowing through the flux,
that causes the attraction and repulsion.

Any Takers???

                                Grey

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