Nick C,
In conclusion, all magnetic fields encountered in nature are generated by circulating currents. There is no fundamental difference between the fields generated by permanent magnets and those generated by currents flowing around conventional electric circuits.
People are getting carried away. If nature were to employ electricity as the primal force then discharge effects
would occur accross the entire cosmos and would be observable. Electrical effects depend of voltage magnitude.
So the above conclusion requires an electric field for circulating currents. At what voltage ?
Why not use magnetism, the flux is non electric and will not discharge through a conducter upon contact.
A iron magnet is conductive material so why can we not sink the magnetism and discharge it.
I maintain magnetism sits at the top of the hierachy - it is passive. Electric fields are not.
Electricity requires an electric field as the path and current as the flow. Electricity is electron flow not electron spin.