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When Faraday began his work with electricity and magnetism, most scientists thought of them as separate (but similar) substances -- invisible fluids that could pass through matter, causing an attraction between two objects due to the "flow" of electricity (or magnetism) from one object to another.

Over the decades of his research, Faraday showed that electricity and magnetism were intimately connected (ie, one could create one by the other) and that they were better described, not as fluids, but as fields. This was a huge advance in our understanding of electromagnetism.

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