What's the Deal With Monopoles?

[Anonymous No.9082553]

I was always under the impression that they were pure pseudo science, but recently I've heard different.

Why do or don't we think they exist?
What effects would they have?
What would they look like?
Do or don't we want them to exist?
Et cetera.

[Anonymous No.9082604]

What the fuck are you talking about?

[Anonymous No.9082625]

>>9082604
Magnetic monopoles, obviously.

[Anonymous No.9082633]

>>9082625
Well, classically they don't exist. We still don't know at other levels.

[Anonymous No.9082644]

>>9082553
It's not pseudo science; it's a hypothetical particle proposed by Dirac. His theoretical data suggests that such a particle is possible to exist, however; it would be difficult to detect with current instrumentation. There is a representation of the magnetic monopole on FSU's campus, where Dirac taught for a while.

[Anonymous No.9083532]

>>9082553
An experiment at the LHC is testing for monopoles:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoEDAL_experiment

[Anonymous No.9083592]

>>9082553
>I was always under the impression that they were pure pseudo science
They are.

>but recently I've heard different.
Congratulations, you caught the stupid.

[Anonymous No.9083851]

>>9082553
>Do or don't we want them to exist?
They're predicted by some theories so finding one would clarify things for us and we could stop wasting all our time and money trying to collide hadrons.
>effects
divB=/=0

[Anonymous No.9084018]

Fully symmetrized Maxwell's equations, theoretically and practically useful; plebs need not apply.

[math]
\begin{align}
\nabla \times \vec{E} &= -\vec{J}_m \\
\nabla \times \vec{H} &= +\vec{J}_e \\
\nabla \times \vec{D} &= -\rho_e \\
\nabla \times \vec{B} &= -\rho_m
\end{align}
[/math]

[Anonymous No.9084021]

>>9082553
for the longest time i could not read anything other than "monopolies" and was really confused by your confusion with their existence. carry on

[Anonymous No.9084045]

>>9084018
Ah, thing were so simple in the late 19th century.

[Anonymous No.9084049]

>>9082553

[Anonymous No.9084138]

>>9082553
Most theories predict monopoles, we just haven't seen any. and also, they are predicted to be extremely heavy and unstable if they exist, so it would be hard to detect them.

[Anonymous No.9084379]

>>9083592
Dirac was stupid?