You may have noticed in this series that I talk about magnetic fields.

Well, let's just say a lot.

I talk about how planets get magnetic fields.

I've talked about how galaxies get magnetic fields.

I talked about how magfields cause sunspots and aurora.

And how could we possibly forget the wacky adventures of the magnetar?

But let's have a moment of honesty.

Magnetic fields, as painful as it is for me to say this magnetic fields just aren't important in the

universe i know i know i know i know i'm personally a big fan but they're just they're just not there

they're just not there man on the very largest scales like properly cosmological the universe is neutral and so magnetic fields just don't

exist above a certain scale and on small scales they're almost always relegated to the background

they're almost always a supporting character they're there but other physics are more important.

They're never the star of the show.

Oh, every once in a while they get a big break, and we have to pay attention to them for a brief moment.

But that fame is short-lived, and they don't get called back into the silver screen.

It's back to just basic cable or, or heaven

forbid, doing a podcast.

On the other hand, we live with magnetic fields.

We rely on the Earth's magnetic field to tell us where to go when we're lost, and we

rely on little handheld ones to stick things to our fridge, I guess.

Okay, so maybe they're not even really important on Earth.

I suppose there are a lot of important industrial uses for magnets out there too.

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