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- From: mkagalen@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (michael kagalenko)
- Subject: Re: Home made monopoles
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.232701.19034@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>
- Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
- References: <1jr3uiINNcjk@mirror.digex.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:27:01 GMT
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- Article 12391 of sci.physics:
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
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- From: mkagalen@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (michael kagalenko)
- Subject: Re: Home made monopoles
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.231942.18551@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>
- Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
- References: <1jr3uiINNcjk@mirror.digex.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:19:42 GMT
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- In article <1jr3uiINNcjk@mirror.digex.com> bdoa@digex.digex.com (Barry Adams) writes:
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- > Home made magnetic monopoles
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- > Contrary to popular belief , magnetic monopoles exist and are easy to
- >make . Take a Steel hemisphere and cut a concentric hemisphere cut of the
- >middle , now magnetize the hemisphere such that the domains of the object
- >are aligned with the north (south) pole pointing outwards. Now stick two of
- >the hemispheres together forming a sphere (glue strong enough to resist
- >the magnetic repulsion of the hemispheres is required) you now have your
- >magnetic monopole :-) , since any observer will see the object having a north
- >pole only (unless they cut it open).
- > Of course the configuration is unstable and the domains will slowly try
- >to rearrange themselves to a more stable state. And the magnetic force still
- >decays like a dipole. Such objects might to useful as frictionless bearings.
- >
- >Barry Adams
- >
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- Are you just kidding or want us to insert your name into our Kill-files ?
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