Last night after I cut the wrapper off of my veggie turkey to have a sandwich I placed the paring knife on the counter in front of me. The knife did this weird twirl and pointed at me. That didn't bother me much. When I picked up the knife I could feel a strong pull on the knife. The same kind of feeling when you place simliar ends of two magnets together. I placed the knife down to see if it would do the twirl thing again but it didn't. I picked it up and I couldn't feel anything. So this is my question. Can magnetic feilds randomly generate out of nothing for short periods of time?
That is possible I guess. I was talking to some of my friends about this today. They tried to come up with ideas but the issue was dismissed quickly. One of them told me though if you hit a metal rod hard enough in the northern direction you can cause it to become magnetic. Neat little fact I thought I would share.
Stainless Steel can be magnetic, depending on the type, I have a pair of scissors that can pick up paper clips. Though for something to become magnetic requires it to be in a magnetic field to start with, the material also needs to be paramagnetic which you certainly aren't and your knife probably isn't. Even going back to the earlier possibility that you knife is slightly magnetic the fact you aren't means that it would neither be attracted or repelled. If you kitchen is being swamped by some huge field then its not inconceivable that some wired effects might occur with only weakly magnetic materials. If you have such a field it will be quite obvious any ferrous material in your house will fly around like its possessed. In short this is unlikely to be down to magnetism, the knife moving on the surface is quite easy, kitchen surfaces tend to be quite low friction, I can get utensils to do quite cool tricks. The whole being attracted to you thing, is harder to explain. Have you considered telekinesis? If you are telekinetic I should probably point out that there are probably better things to practise on than knives.
