C'mon R.L.

I spelled it out pretty clearly. Obviously not clearly enough.

What exactly is it in those electron spins that creates magnetism?

Electrons aren't the flux field - they emit the flux field. Lines of magnetic force are not particles - they are waves.

Everything I mentioned was absolutely valid, albeit a bit more advanced than the average electron spin explanation of magnetism.

Dipoles are the result of polarization. Electron spins are really just packets of wave forms moving in vortexes. By nature of their vortical motion they have a magnetic dipole moment.

Electron spin is totally unexplainable by classical physics because the radius of an electron is assumed to be e2/(2mc2=1.41x10-13cm. This radius and its electrical energy creates a magnetic moment u0 and a resulting peripheral velocity that makes the speed of light seem like slow motion.

Einstein said, "No way, Jose!" to speeds like that with his Special Theory of Relativity. Basically, it is another dead end which has lead to quantum electrodynamic definitions of the magnetic dipole moment of electrons.

So what exactly is going on?

What exactly is electrical energy?

Atoms dumping "loads."

What are those loads: packets of wave form energy conducted from one atom to another because they are moving due to the difference in low and high potential levels of different locations.

Electrons are waves which are carrying electrical loads and dumping excess energy cyclically. The moment they dump those waves is the electron's "magnetic moment."

So now we have little electromagnets in an atom. So why aren't all elements' atoms magnetic? The answer is of course the positioning of the electrons. When two electrons are paired they cancel each other out and these emitting waves are don't emit to any degree because they feed their pair electron - and these waves sort of travel in a figure eight in these two vortices.

So wood, plastic and other elements are non-magnetic because they have paired electrons and don't have the same single emitting electrons in iron or other magnetic elements.

But in iron we see these waves being emitted - and when the whole group of iron atoms become so aligned we see the flux lines it generates increase in strength and size. These waves increase their strength through harmonic resonance and now can reach out and interlink with the other atoms electron' "dumps" creating wave binding or "attraction" (or possibly wave collisions and "repulsion" in the case of another polarized body).

No big mystery at all. But nothing as simple as magnetism is just aligned electrons either.

;-)

SDAI-Tech1

PS
As for your experiment...my guess is the magnet was interfacing electrically with the copper and generated a certain amount of friction on its way out the tube.