"Now, what is it, the feeling between those two magnets?"
"There's something there, isn't there?"
"what's going on between these two bits of metal"
"What does that mean, or why are they doing that, or how are they doing that?"
I don't know what phenomena you study, but I assure you that "magnets" aren't the only topic for which the "feeling" and "what does that mean" and "why" questions would warrant the same answer.
And where answering "how" would be cheating if the answer would use some false analogy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22816968
Hint, the questions were:
"Now, what is it, the feeling between those two magnets?"
"There's something there, isn't there?"
"what's going on between these two bits of metal"
"What does that mean, or why are they doing that, or how are they doing that?"
I don't know what phenomena you study, but I assure you that "magnets" aren't the only topic for which the "feeling" and "what does that mean" and "why" questions would warrant the same answer.
And where answering "how" would be cheating if the answer would use some false analogy.