Magnetic Monopoles
by Plamadude30k on Sep.05, 2009, under Physics, Science
Recently several papers came out that indicate that magnetic monopoles (or magnetic monopole analogues) actually exist. If you don’t know what these are, look them up on wikipedia, and you’ll see that it’s a pretty exciting result. IF these results are true (note the big if), physics has some serious changing to do. For example:
no longer holds. WOAH! A change to Maxwell’s equations! HERESY!
Here’s some links to articles and papers about it:
Nature News
Science NOW
Observation of Magnetic Monopoles in Spin Ice, Kadowaki et al. 2009
Magnetic Charge Transport, Bramwell et al. 2009
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