Think about it. Isn’t light+eyes and ears+sound just the same in terms of their “influence at a distance”? We don’t feel that as abnormal or magic - simply because we’ve sensors for them and are used to it. But physically speaking light and magnetism are based on electromagnetic forces.
Would you mind defining "we don't really know how it works"?
If the greatest minds of our age don't know, what hope do we mere mortals have?