No magnetc field

[AhuraMazda]

I have recently come to the conclusion that the Earth has no magnetic field and have decided to share this knowledge rather than go for a Nobel prize.

If we have two small pins placed a little apart, under the influence of a small magnet they atract each other.

Why is it that earths magnetic field does not bring them together? (but the Earths magnetic field is too little to do that is no answer).

Another one: if you rub a magnet against a suitable nail several times the nail becomes magnetic.
you take a similar nail and rub it on the ground (north to south ) as much as you like and let me know the result!

I am having a sleepless night and Please someone answer this question too: Can a single atom of any ferromagnetic material
be made into a magnet?

AM

[AhuraMazda]

Here is an old book from when  magnetism was a new science!

An_Introduction_to_Natural_Philosophy:

http://books.google.com/books/pdf/An_Introduction_to_Natural_Philosophy.pdf?id=grQLAAAAYAAJ&output=pdf&sig=IIPK35NhwzU5eFQKKcFT6hrutu4

[hansvonlieven]

I have recently come to the conclusion that the Earth has no magnetic field and have decided to share this knowledge rather than go for a Nobel prize.

Well Ahura, how do you account for the behaviour of a compass needle then?

Take a magnet, float it on a piece of wood and put it in a bowl of water and you can see the earth's magnetic field. No other explanation. Sorry about your Nobel prize.

Hans von Lieven

[Earl]

@Ah

not only can a single atom be a magnet, a single electron is a magnet.  It can not be otherwise:  a moving charge always generates a magnetic field.

Take your two needles, and your NEO magnet, then place your NEO magnet as far from the needles as the center of the Earth and ask yourself, will the needles still attract?

Now you should understand.

Earl

[sparks]

@Ah

not only can a single atom be a magnet, a single electron is a magnet.  It can not be otherwise:  a moving charge always generates a magnetic field.

Take your two needles, and your NEO magnet, then place your NEO magnet as far from the needles as the center of the Earth and ask yourself, will the needles still attract?

Now you should understand.

Earl

   And a magnetic field always moving the charge