Magnetic Field

A magnetic field is a vector field in the vicinity of a magnet, electric current, or

changing electric field that exhibits magnetic forces. Moving electric charges and
intrinsic magnetic moments of elementary particles associated with a
fundamental quantum property known as spin generate a magnetic field.
Magnetic and electric fields are both interconnected and components of the
electromagnetic force, one of nature's four fundamental forces.

The magnetic field was first studied in 1269, when French scholar Petrus
Peregrinus de Maricourt used iron needles to map the magnetic field on the
surface of a spherical magnet. He observed that the resulting field lines
intersected at two points. These points were dubbed "poles" by him. Following
this observation, he stated that magnets always have North and South poles,
regardless of how finely they are sliced.