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More monopole musings (was "What If")
Bert, you shouldn't have gotten started on the monopole trip.g Must be
that Bud Lite. Anyhow, thinking back on Wolter's half-jest about electrical conductors being magnetic monopoles, the same would be true of a lightning bolt. A current-carrying wire, for its entire length, is surrounded by a magnetic field of one 'sign' or the other (either N or S), the sign being determined by direction of current flow in the wire. The lines of force (flux tubes) enter the wire's surface vertical to the surface, and do not loop around and re-enter the wire; rather they are open-ended at their tops. And they all spin in the same direction going in. So the entire length of the wire becomes a de facto magnetic monopole. A lightning bolt, for its brief existance, is also an electrical conductor, which would make it a magnetic monopole for the same reason. Bert, go easy on that Bud. oc |
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HI oc Very hot here in Florida and those ice cold buds are greatly
needed.Now I know little about monopoles,but I know Guth has worked on the theory of monopoles and is a person other physicist go to for his thoughts on them. I know he told his friend Tye when they were both at Cornel,"If grand unified theories held, magnetic monopoles must exist. As one of my post I used monopoles having the same negative charge for all matter particles so they would repel,at the moment of the BB. You could come up with a theory that gravity is a negative monopole,and treated all matter as positive(it fits) You mention lightning oc and that is static electricity,and it is the flow of electrons and they are negative(did Wolter have this in mind as a monopole?) Now Guth has the weight of a monopole at a whopping 10,000 trillion times more than a proton. Maybe a graviton is a monopole? To get rid of all these monopoles that would out number the amount of protons the universe has today,Guth used his inflation theory to open up space,that in a split second this inch patch of space bloated into region as large as the presently observable universe(in the book and are Guth's thoughts) oc You could say that is the way Guth used his theory to show you won't find monopoles close to us today,and no accelerator will ever be built can ever move such a heavy mass. Bert |
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Bert, out here Coors rules. "It's Coors all the way down". BigG
Wolter didn't believe there is any mechanism by which a 'true' spherical magnetic monopole can exist in nature. That's because his model of magnetism is based on flowing space and the spin component of flowing space. It dictates that any form of magnetism has to be bipolar (except of course the field surrounding a current-carrying electrical conductor. A length of wire, while it displays a monopolar 'sign' along its length, does not constitute a "pole" in the sense a spherical monopole would). Guth et al. operate in the void-space paradigm in which space is treated as functionally void. So all field theories and monopole theories are rooted in the void-space premise. Wolter was totally charitable toward the 'Void-Spacers'. He said if you're gonna believe in void-space, then by golly you gotta have 'messenger particles'- flying photons, gravitons, and whatever other "-itons", "-otons" and "-onons" might seem necessary. Massive magnetic monopoles would no doubt follow a similar imperative under void-space. oc |
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