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- From: glipton@lafcol.lafayette.edu (Gary Lipton)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Magnetic monopoles?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.032445.4376@lehi3b15.CSEE.Lehigh.EDU>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 03:24:45 GMT
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- Some odds and ends about monopoles:
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- Grand Unified Theories popular in the early 80's predicted the
- existence of *very* massive monopoles - sorry I don't have figures,
- but I recall that the mass was on the order of micrograms - pretty
- hefty. Some GUTs also predicted that monopoles could "catalyze"
- proton decay - needless to say, none of this was verified experimentally.
-
- In 1983 (I think) Cabrera of Stanford ran an experiment to detect
- monopoles. The experiment detected one event which had a virtually
- perfect signature for a monopole. This event occurred on a Sunday
- when no one was monitoring the apparatus. The event was, as far as
- I know, never explained and never repeated.
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- * Gary Lipton, Dept. of EE *
- * Lafayette College, Easton, PA 18042 *
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