Large Hadron Collider pipe brings search for elusive magnetic monopole closer than ever
Large Hadron Collider pipe brings search for elusive magnetic monopole closer than ever
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Large Hadron Collider pipe brings search for elusive magnetic monopole closer than ever
wait, one of Maxwells equations states that monopoles are impossible, that's a lot of textbooks that would have to be rewritten 😂
IIRC he wrote his equations assuming that magnetic monopoles are impossible because we’ve never found one. There are a lot of things that would be more symmetric if they existed, though.
Which would be awesome. I love it when there is a breakthrough big enough to mean rewrites have to happen.
They "rewrite" them every year anyway so might as well get some new science in there
Maxwell’s equations have already been rewritten into the Dirac equation. Magnetic monopoles are quantum weird and would not show up in undergrad textbooks regardless