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- From: dseeman@novell.com (Daniel Seeman)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Magnetic monopoles?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.171755.5230@novell.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 17:17:55 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.032445.4376@lehi3b15.CSEE.Lehigh.EDU> glipton@po.CWRU.Edu writes:
- >Some odds and ends about monopoles:
- >
- >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.
- >
- I heard about that too, but think someone (one of my instructors?) who was in on
- the project said the "detector" had been found to be defective in some way. But
- my memory of this is definately foggy by now.
-
- dks.
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