Sunday, December 21, 2008

A Magnetic Life



Putting everything together... I think what God's calling for a person looks like is something like one huge arrow. However, this huge arrow is made up of several small arrows all aligned in one direction.

It's like the magnetic domains in a piece of iron. In the absence of an external magnetic field, all the domains are randomly pointing to anywhere. Thus the iron bar has no net magnetic force.

However, when an iron bar is put next to a powerful magnet, the magnetic domains all start aligning themselves to the magnetic field exerted by the magnet. And the iron bar is now capable of acting with the same power of the magnet, simply because the magnetic field from the magnet is now flowing through the attached iron bar too.

And give it enough time, the iron bar will itself start becoming a magnet too.

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