According to the magazine Futura Science, the term “magnetism” means the set of phenomena that happens in the heart and around magnetized materials. This magnetization can be natural or emanate from a field of electric or magnetic induction. That is because magnetism is what designates the forces that attract certain materials to one another, or reject them. It is an invisible force that acts in a well-defined field.
Everything that exists on Earth is made up of atoms. Atoms are composed of a nucleus and electrons gravitating around this nucleus. Thus, when a material is rubbed, we disturb the balance of all its electrons, which are agitated and disorganized. Then positive zones appear, with more positive electrons and negative zones with a larger number of negative electrons. To restore balance, opposed areas attract themselves, and the identical areas, on the contrary, repel themselves.
In certain materials such as iron, cobalt, nickel, neodymium or iron oxide, magnetism is naturally present and it works without any exterior help. In other materials, the magnetizer effect is not so important, but it exists. Certain stones such as the green jade naturally possess it, and it is a particularity, a fairly strong magnetism. On the website gemstonemagnetism.com, we could discover that the green jade, nephrite or jadeite, contains iron with a strong magnetism. Thus, this feature allows us to distinguish an imitation of jade as the dyed green chalcedony or calcite, or other green polymers, which are almost inert.
The terrestrial magnetism: we live on a giant magnet: Earth. It behaves like a magnetic dipole. Its magnetic axis, in movement, and its geographical rotation axis do not coincide. The axis of the magnetic poles slowly shifts 40 km a year to the northwest and even inverted in the past of our planet more than 300 times since the last 100 million years.
According to the legend, it was a certain person called Magnes, Greek, who discovered magnetism. Climbing to the top of Mount magnets, with his sandals full of nails, Magnes realized that his feet were irresistibly attracted by the rock containing magnetite, a ferromagnetic oxide… If the legend is beautiful, the reality is different. We don’t know whether the Greek philosopher Aristotle also had nails on his sandals, the truth is that this would have been he who first evoked this phenomenon 600 years before our era, when having a conversation with Thales de Mileto.
As for the use of magnetism, the first steps were given in India by Sushruta, an Indian surgeon who would have made use of the lodestone in a medical setting. Some years later, back to Greece, Platon clearly explained the phenomenon of magnetization. While the first object that allowed the use of magnetism was the compass, its implementation is dated from the late twelfth century by Europeans. It’s important to know that for their Chinese colleagues, things happened much earlier, over 100 years before.
How the compass was created…
More than 10 centuries ago, the Chinese discovered that small iron needles rubbed against lodestone, became magnetized again. It is mainly because of this discovery that the compass was born, allowing sailors to orientate when sailing. Since the Earth is a giant magnet that orients the compass needle towards the North Pole.
What about magnetism and magnetizers?
The magnetizers are defined as persons that work on individuals or animals by imposing their hands on precise areas of the body to relieve their pain. The contact with the body would not always be effective. This means that the magnetizer does not necessarily touch the body, but places his hands over the areas to be treated. Through this technique, the magnetizer “removes” the illness from the treated person and according to the definitions, conveys a healing fluid.
This technique has not been scientifically proven yet and remains under discussion in a number of countries by scientists and medical professionals. This is why in several hospitals the emergency services would turn to magnetizers in complement to the conventional medicine, specifically in Switzerland, and the United States, where they have even been integrated into treatments to improve the results. It is the case of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston in the United States, which is home to the Harvard Medical School, and will even accept in the operating rooms, healers as complements to the certificated doctors. But for science, these practices that are not always explained still remain being a mystery.
ALFA