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- From: John.Brawley@p1.f9.n8012.z86.toadnet.org (John Brawley)
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- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Home made monopoles
- Message-ID: <728137681.AA00483@cheswicks.toadnet.org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:29:20 -0600
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- A > From: brahm@cco.caltech.edu (David E. Brahm)
- A > Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
-
- A > > Home made magnetic monopoles
- A > > [Glue together 2 hemispheres each magnetized with "North" at its
- A > pole]
- A >
- A > I don't know who's serious and who's joking here, but for the record,
- A > Adams's construction is not a monopole (I believe it's a quadrupole).
- A > Field lines outside the sphere emerge from each pole and re-enter at
- A > the
- A > equator; "glue" doesn't stop them! You can't make something that
- A > violates
- A > Gauss's Law of Magnetism (del.B=0) by superposing things that obey it.
-
- This mean you cannot make one of these no matter what? (of -course-
- that's what you mean.... It just seems like it ought to work, say, if
- you provided serrated (as in rabbeted) perimeter edges... You mean
- that no matter how tight you make the seams, the field would "leak"
- through the (say, nanometer wide) join line? What would happen to
- the sphere _if_, say, you managed to get a perfect join (theoretically
- speaking)? Would the field "leak" through somwhere else? Metal
- fatigue and shatter? What? What? (I'd thought on this idea several
- years ago... I wanted to make a "floating ball" that sat in a
- concave all-(south or north) "dish" shaped field (no problem), and
- had all the outside of the sphere the same polarity. I wasn't
- trying to make a monopole, just a neat thing with earth's geographical
- features painted on it. Floating like that, tiny breezes ought to
- trun it. Now here you come poking terrible holes in my neat little
- floating globe idea! Gad. <grin> Tell me: what if I drilled tiny
- holes all over it? Would that allow me to have, say 95% of the outer
- surface all one polarity, with the other polarity's flux lines all
- bunched together in the holes, like they do in a ring magnet?
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