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Why don't magnets violate the Law of Conservation of Energy? If I've got two magnets on a tabletop, and I move one just close enough that the other shoots across the table and sticks to it, where did the kinetic energy of the untouched magnet come from?

by /u/IAMA_Printer_AMA in /r/askscience

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