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Electromagnetism: What We Actually Know

Electromagnetism is one of the four fundamental forces and is arguably the best understood of all of them. Unlike gravity, whose underlying mechanism remains genuinely contested, electromagnetism has a clear, directly observable mechanism - charged particles interacting through electric and magnetic fields.

What’s documented and real:

Plasma behavior is electromagnetic. Birkeland currents - filamentary plasma structures carrying electrical current through space - are real and documented. Hannes Alfvén won a Nobel Prize for magnetohydrodynamics. The aurora borealis is electromagnetic in origin.

Density and buoyancy - the most directly observable explanation for why things rise and fall - involve molecular interactions that are fundamentally electromagnetic in nature. Atoms repel each other through electromagnetic force. What we experience as physical surfaces, resistance, and buoyancy are electromagnetic phenomena at the molecular level.

That’s a real and honest observation worth taking seriously.