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To be fair: "A magnet works because negatively charged electrons repel each other. "
"Why do negatively charged electrons repel each other? "
"..... Well .. Ok, so hear me out. You're going to need to understand quantum mechanics and then the fermion principal. Then you'll know that the electrons aren't allowed to occupy the same space, and the easiest way to avoid being in the same space is to not touch each other. The electrons know they aren't allowed to touch because they've studied fermions."
On the other hand… ”why do things fall down?” Now THERE’S a rabbit hole.
"down" is "just" a name for the direction everything falls.
Why do things fall? What happened to "a body at rest stays at rest"?
So they can learn to pick themselves up?
If no net forces are applied to that body. That's what.
I think you may have taken me too seriously, but if so that's a very dismissive response. I think your reply would be improved by describing at least one (nigh-universal, so it applies to "things" in general) force and saying why it exists.