Timeline for What is happening when magnetic field lines snap or break?

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Jun 19, 2020 at 20:33	history	edited	Deschele Schilder	CC BY-SA 4.0	added 77 characters in body
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Jun 18, 2020 at 22:29	history	edited	Deschele Schilder	CC BY-SA 4.0	improvement
Jun 18, 2020 at 19:27	comment	added	Deschele Schilder		@JohnDvorak That's what I actually meant. An unpaired electron in the outer shell is indeed associated with a time-varying wavefunction (which, I think, produces no noteworthy averaged magnetic moment). Every unpaired electron (which are the electrons I refer to) gives the atom a constant magnetic moment. I'll edit to make it more clear. Thanks!
Jun 18, 2020 at 9:53	comment	added	John Dvorak		"the magnetic fields around the bar magnets are produced by electrons moving around atomic nuclei" - actually, no. Most of the magnetic field comes from the electrons' spins, which is a different phenomenon than the orbital angular momentum (which is different yet from movement in the sense of time-variant position probability distribution). Imagining the electrons as spinning in place would be closer (but still wrong).
Jun 18, 2020 at 9:13	comment	added	Deschele Schilder		@chrylis-cautiouslyoptimistic- Thanks! From a cautiously pessimistic cross-eyed painter (that's what my user's name means). :)
Jun 18, 2020 at 7:51	comment	added	chrylis -cautiouslyoptimistic-		The contrast in pictures is a helpful explanation.
Jun 17, 2020 at 21:07	vote	accept	Robert
Jun 17, 2020 at 9:47	history	edited	Deschele Schilder	CC BY-SA 4.0	improvement
Jun 17, 2020 at 0:51	history	edited	Deschele Schilder	CC BY-SA 4.0	added 176 characters in body
Jun 17, 2020 at 0:20	history	answered	Deschele Schilder	CC BY-SA 4.0