On Oct 16, 2009, at 2:26 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote:
In reply to Harry Veeder's message of Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:00:59
-0400:
Hi,
[snip]
Magnetic monopoles detected in a real magnet for the first time
Researchers from the Helmholtz Centre Berlin, in cooperation with
colleagues from Dresden, St. Andrews, La Plata and Oxford, have
for the
first time observed magnetic monopoles and how they emerge in a real
material. They publish this result in the journal Science within the
Science Express web site on Sept. 3.
more
http://www.physorg.com/news171209923.html
Without reading the original paper, my guess is that what they
really have is
long spaghetti like dipoles. IOW I think the strings have a North
pole on one
end and a South pole on the other end.
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk
http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
I'm fairly sure this is true. There is no net monopole, no
accumulation of one pole or the other feasible by this means.
However, this doesn't prevent the poles from moving around inside the
condensed matter in an independent manner, thus generating magnetic
current. What is amazing to me is the fact such long filaments,
which must be the equivalent of superconducting solenoids in the
shape of spaghetti, can be so long and flexible and have the ability
to freely move through condensed matter. It makes me wonder if there
might exist a dual universe, where electric charge and magnetic
charge have been exchanged.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
