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It would be interesting to imagine a society without magnets. We could use steam engines to pump water. Fiber optic light pipes for some home lighting. Gas s
by ape4 11y ago
It would be interesting to imagine a society without magnets. We could use steam engines to pump water. Fiber optic light pipes for some home lighting. Gas stoves for cooking.
- Retric 11y agoI always thought that was the steam punk idea. No magnets = no radio or other long distance communication. Other than possibly a fiber optic telegraph with limited range.
- phyzome 11y agoSpark gap radio?
- Redoubts 11y agoAnd plasma tweeters!
- Retric 11y agoYou can get into arguments about specifics by saying they still have light so they still have say EM radiation. But, what is and is not magnetism get's a little wonky when you get into the specifics. Strong, weak, electromagnetic force, and gravity. That's it. Without magnetism you don't get atoms. However, if you hand wave that the induction coil is a transformer used to step up voltage and transformers work fairly directly though magnetism.
- thomasahle 11y agoThere are many ways of generating electricity without magnetic induction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation#Methods_of_generating_electricity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation#Methods... Batteries was (iirc) the typical way it was done before Faraday.
- mrfusion 11y agoMotors would be harder though.
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