The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
As for the forces electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.