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ScienceDaily (Oct. 17, 2010) — For decades, researchers have been searching for magnetic monopoles -- isolated magnetic charges, which can move around freely in the same way as electrical charges. Magnetic poles normally only occur in pairs. Now a team of researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland and University College Dublin has managed to create monopoles in the form of quasiparticles in an assembly of nanoscale magnets and to observe how they move using a microscope at the Swiss Light Source (SLS) to make the magnetic structures visible.
Originally posted by binomialtheorem
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 17, 2010) — For decades, researchers have been searching for magnetic monopoles -- isolated magnetic charges, which can move around freely in the same way as electrical charges. Magnetic poles normally only occur in pairs. Now a team of researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland and University College Dublin has managed to create monopoles in the form of quasiparticles in an assembly of nanoscale magnets and to observe how they move using a microscope at the Swiss Light Source (SLS) to make the magnetic structures visible.
The thing is that when electric field lines are cut on the joining of the 2 field lines they separate into one positive or one negative charge.
When the same thing is done to a magnet, i.e. a dipole magnet, the one dipole magnet becomes 2 smaller dipole magnets.
So there were these objects that were theorized called monopoles. These only have one pole.(i.e. one south pole or one north pole.)
The discovery of these hasn't occurred until today.
We might be seeing a new wave in technological abilities, so keep your eyes open to these things in the future!
Originally posted by jephers0n
Ahh, This subject caught my attention a while back, I think early this year.
It makes me wonder what will come next with all the 'free energy devices' popping up... I mean, many of them work on manipulating magnetic fields... and using these monopole magnets (say magnetised to North), wouldn't you be able to have a particle follow a N/S (or Positive/Negative) path (the device) without adding energy to it?
Just thinking... Aloud... Ish