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AMA | April 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Do Magnetic Monopoles Exist?

Do magnetic monopoles actually exist? And is it possible for us to create them in a particle elerator or some other way? How much energy would it take to create one, if this is even a possibility? We don't know whether monopoles exist. There is, they could exist, theoreticallyob by which i mean we can construct physical theories that are compatible with all the physics that we know in the world and allow for the existence of magnetic monopoles. In fact, famously, grand unified field theories generally predict monopoles. Maybe i will when i get to baltimore. Maybe ill fire up the old painting studio again. You never know. And then i can excel them

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