Can Static Attraction and Magnetic Attraction Coexist?

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Static attraction involves charged objects attracting or repelling each other due to their electric fields, while magnetic attraction involves moving charges creating magnetic fields. A static object, like a balloon, cannot be attracted to a magnet because it lacks a magnetic field, only an electric field. Conversely, magnets possess magnetic fields generated by the movement of electrons within their structure. The interaction between static and magnetic fields requires movement; static fields do not create the necessary conditions for interaction. Thus, static attraction and magnetic attraction cannot coexist in a way that allows them to influence each other directly.
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What is the difference between static attraction or repelling, compared to magnetic.
I understand the princips of static build up and why a charged positive and charged negative attract each other. I also understand how the atoms are arranged in a "metal-magnet".
But why can't you attract a static object (baloon) wit a magnet?
 
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Moving electric charges create magnetic fields and moving magnets create electric fields, but they don't directly interact with each other like that. A magnetic field does not interact with an electric field directly. The electric field has to be moving, thereby creating its own magnetic field, and then those two magnetic fields can interact (or vice versa with magnets and electric fields).
 
Okay, that would explain electromagnetism!
So a static field consists of "non moving" electrons! And a magnet consists of molecules with moving electrons, is that right/the answer to why they won't interact?
 
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Okay, that would explain electromagnetism!
So a static field consists of "non moving" electrons! And a magnet consists of molecules with moving electrons, is that right/the answer to why they won't interact?

The balloon has an electric field but no magnetic field. The magnet has a magnetic field but no electric field. Therefore, there is no force between them.
 
Ok, Quantum! Thanks for your time!
 
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