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I have a hard time understanding why does earth have magnetic fields. My textbook reads:

"The Earth's core is very hot and molten, and the ions of iron and nickel are responsible for Earth's magnetism.

But how did it manage to create such huge magnetic fields?

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  • $\begingroup$ There is also earthscience.stackexchange.com. Your textbook is really imprecise. As an introduction to a complex matter, would this article help a bit ? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… $\endgroup$
    – user265136
    Commented Aug 15, 2020 at 9:58
  • $\begingroup$ Possible duplicate: physics.stackexchange.com/q/13922/2451 $\endgroup$
    – Qmechanic ♦
    Commented Jan 20 at 19:00

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https://youtu.be/lWHxmJf6U3M Watch this video, you will get a good enough idea of how the earth's magnetic fields have strengthened itself over time. But the question as to how the fields originated in the first place, is still a question to be answered. But I think that though with very low probability, it may have happened that once, all the metal ions would have (for very small instant) arranged in such a manner that all their magnetic moments would have added up and may be this would have been the origin (since the molten fluid inside earth is constantly flowing) and then this field would have been enhanced by the process explained in the video.

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