God was high when he created physics.

FOR EXAMPLE:

1. I have two steel ball bearings in my desk that are an inch in diameter. I also have a rather powerful neodymium magnet that can lift about 60 pounds. The balls are stacked in my fist one on top the other, and I hold them two inches above the magnet.

When I let go one the bottom steel bearing, holding only the top one, the bottom one does not get sucked onto the magnet. Rather, THE MAGNETIC FURY IS HOLDING THE TWO BALL BEARINGS TOGETHER. 60 freaking pounds of magnetic fury AND GRAVITY should be pulling the bearing down, but no, the ball bearing is somehow attached to the non-magnet!

This was seriously pissing me off, so I looked up the answer via the Internets. It turns out magnetic fury acts stronger at a point rather than a flat surface, so the magnetic attraction being induced betwixt the bearings at the point of contact was stronger than the magnetic attraction of the flat surface. I get the reason; it just still makes no freaking sense.

2. Take a record (or a CD) spinning on a player. Then take two points on said record; one near the center and another near the edge. They both take the same amount of time to complete a revolution. However, the point near the edge has a bigger distance to go, so it is technically going at a faster speed than the point at the center.

Yeah, I realize the difference between tangental and radial velocities now, but when I first heard that, I was shaking my fist at physical law for quite some time after.

So, what other physical properties / laws do y'all think make no freaking sense?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Bumping as it became necessary to. If you have the chance to reproduce this, I highly recommend it:

1. Lay a one pound silver round on a wooden table (or something not metal).

2. Get a 2" x 2" x 1" neodymium magnet and drop it from a height of one inch onto the round.

3. Notice it lands excruciatingly gently upon the round, like the silver is repulsing the magnet.

4. Also notice, when you pick up the magnet, the silver is loosely sticking to the magnet. It both attracts and repulses the magnet.

WHY IS IT DOING THAT?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I will consider doing such, if only to document this one effect. However, the more pressing issue remains of why it's doing that. It has something to do with the fact that silver is a diamagnetic material, which hence gives it a tendency to repulse a magnetic field. However, that doesn't explain the attractive force.

How ya doing, buddy?