Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #04206
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Wouter Brok w.j.m.brok@stud.tue.nl
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 10:12:33 +0200
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: BEAM forcefield....
Hello Steve,
>wow wow....there isnt any magnet that is a monopole...sorry if im a little
>lost..i want following the thread here, but i just thought i would apply
some
>of that torture that my school calls science to good use =)
Nope, no magnet has been observed yet with only one pole. This is not so
strange if you think about the field-lines produced by a magnet (line from
North to South).
In theoretical physics people are trying to figure out if it is actually
possible to have a monopole (that it hasn't been obeserved doesn't mean it
is not possible), but the general opinion is that in the classical world (I
mean the world with the low velocities and lengths of the kind we are used
to) there isn't such a thing as a monopole; maybe in the world of general
relativity (large lengths and high velocities), but thus isn't sure yet at
all.
Wouter Brok.
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