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- From: jonathan_scott@vnet.ibm.com (Jonathan Scott)
- Message-ID: <19930125.145640.171@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 22:10:56 GMT
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Home made monopoles
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- Before anyone else falls for this, the "home made monopole" as described
- doesn't work. If you have a hollow sphere made of material which was
- totally uniformly magnetized along radial lines, the effect of closing
- the sphere would be to exactly cancel out the magnetic field. If it was
- less than perfect, you would have patches of north and south pole over
- the surface, giving equal flux into and out of the sphere.
-
- That is, of course, unless you put a monopole inside it...
-
- Jonathan Scott
- jonathan_scott@vnet.ibm.com or jscott@winvmc.vnet.ibm.com
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