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Replace "gay marriage" with "polygamy" in the above post and the reasoning still holds. However, for some reason I don't see opponents of polygamy being called "hate-filled fanatics".

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Classical spinless moving charges can produce magnetic moments, leading to the paradox posed above, in which magnetic fields do no work but do enable work to be done. But relativity and quantum field theory together give particles intrinsic magnetic moments, and so real particles do experience non-Lorentz forces from magnetic fields, which can do work.

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This would be the best news of my life!

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and the fact that you are still limited to what Boe has to offer.

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So, where you will go on holidays?

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Since combat would logically be a large part in saving the world from evil beings, I see no sense in keeping it so simple.

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Something just occurred to me: What you're saying is limited to simple Newtonian equations, right?

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Because this is a cross product, the force is perpendicular to both the motion of the particle and the magnetic field. It follows that the magnetic force does no work on the particle; it may change the direction of the particle's movement, but it cannot cause it to speed up or slow down.

This might give you pause: Simple bar magnets seem to be entirely able to pick up small metal objects, which certainly seems to require that they do work on those objects. As David Griffiths points out in his textbook Introduction to Electrodynamics, this law is absolute - the magnetic field doesn't do any work. However, quite like the normal force of an inclined plane, which also can't do work, the magnetic field can redirect the efforts of existing forces, and then those forces can indeed do work in the relevant direction.

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