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Old 30-June-2008, 03:48 PM
grant hutchison grant hutchison is offline
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Originally Posted by publius View Post
Really which we call "north" and "south" is just an accident of which way the earth's field happened to be during modern times when EM was discovered and the theory worked out.
And, of course, the magnetic pole near the Earth's north rotation pole is a south magnetic pole. Otherwise the north pole of a compass needle wouldn't point towards it.

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