Re: The Substandard Paradigm: Magnetic Monopoles!


"Robert" <rloldershaw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Now here is a case where the true character of the Substandard Paradigm is
revealed.

Proponents of the Substandard Paradigm nod their heads sagely and say with
complete confidence: 'The concept of magnetic monopoles is a very elegant
one, and if there is just one magnetic monopole somewhere out there in the
vast universe then the *one* single magnetic monopole willl totally
explain why electric charge is quantized.'

The Substandard crowd got especially excited by the Inflationary Scenario
because it said the grand awhoom wisked away the lonely monopole to the
outskirts of the universe where we can never hope to find it. And of
course the fact that we cannot find one is once again a point of "support"
for the magnetic monopole concept.

The Substandard crowd seem unfazed when it is pointed out to them that, in
zillions of tests, every time a magnetic field is *actually observed* in
nature, it was produced by a moving electric charge and it had at least
two "poles". Magnetic monopole is an oxymoron, but try telling that to a
moron.

The days of plastic, junk-bond physics are numbered. Enjoy them while you
still can.

From Wikipedia - Magnetic monopole:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_monopole

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One of the defining advances in quantum theory was Paul Dirac's work on
developing a relativistic quantum electromagnetism. Before his formulation,
the presence of electric charge is simply "inserted" into QM, but in 1931
Dirac showed that a discrete charge naturally "falls out" of QM. This is
because a system consisting of a single stationary electric monopole (an
electron, say) and a single stationary magnetic monopole would have angular
momentum. The magnitude of the angular momentum would depend only on the
product of the electric charge (e) and "magnetic charge" (g) and would be
independent of the distance between them. Quantum mechanics requires that
angular momentum be quantized in units of h. This means that if even a
single magnetic monopole existed in the universe, all electric charges would
then be quantized.
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Dictionary.com.
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/quantize

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quantize

To limit a variable or variables describing a physical system to discrete,
distinct values. For example, the energy of electromagnetic radiation such
as light at a given frequency must be an integer multiple of h?, where ? is
the frequency and h is a Planck's constant; electromagnetic energy is thus
inherently quantized (in this case, photons are the quanta of energy). The
distinct orbitals of electrons in an atom are also a case of quantized
energy. Many apparently continuous phenomena turn out to be quantized at a
very fine level or very small scale; quantum mechanics was developed in
large part to explain many unexpected cases of quantization in the natural
world.
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Dictionary.com.
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary.
Houghton Mifflin Company.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/magnetic field

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magnetic field

A field of force associated with changing electric fields, as when electric
charges are in motion. Magnetic fields exert deflective forces on moving
electric charges. Most magnets have magnetic fields as a result of the
spinning motion of the electrons orbiting the atoms of which they are
composed; electromagnets create such fields from electric current moving
through coils. Large objects, such as the earth, other planets, and stars,
also produce magnetic fields. See Note at magnetism.
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Dictionary.com.
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary.
Houghton Mifflin Company.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/magnetism

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Our Living Language : Magnetism is intimately linked with electricity, in
that a magnetic field is established whenever electric charges are in
motion, as in the flow of electrons in a wire, or the movement of electrons
around an atomic nucleus. In atoms, this invisible field consists of closed
loops called lines of force that surround and run through the atom.

Magnetic regions where lines of force come together densely are called north
and south poles. In substances in which the magnetic fields of each atom are
aligned, the magnetic field causes the entire substance to act like a single
magnet-with north and south poles and a surrounding magnetic field.
Permanent magnets are made of substances that retain this alignment. If a
magnet is cut in two, each piece becomes a separate magnet with two poles.

A coil of wire wrapped around an iron core can be made magnetic by running
electric current through it; the looping electrons then create a magnetic
field in just the same way as the spinning electrons in individual atoms. As
long as current flows, the coil remains magnetized. Such magnets, called
electromagnets, are used in many devices such as doorbells and switches.

The connection between electric and magnetic fields is not one of cause and
effect, however. Einstein showed that both the magnetic and electric fields
are part of a single electromagnetic field, described by a single
mathematical object called a tensor. Observers in different reference frames
will not observe the same separate values for electric and magnetic fields,
but will observe identical electromagnetic tensors.

Whether or not magnetic monopoles (elementary particles carrying an isolated
north or south magnetic "charge," analogous to positive or negative electric
charge) actually exist remains unknown; though they are predicted by some
theories, none have been detected.
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From what it looks like to me... and I could be wrong, of course... they are
trying to find a particle that does half the work in a magnetized atom that
"funnels" (for wont of a better word) magnetism through it. I think they
will fail... at least until they can discover a future with no past or,
failing that, a front with no back.

What I see:
Magnetic force is defined by the fact it is motion. In permanent magnets,
like lodestones, the production of a magnetic field appears to me to be a
product of resonance between like-aligned atoms (locked into a matrix) whose
particles are in synchronous motion. I know, impossible, since electrons
exist as "clouds" around their nucleus, and so one electron probably won't
be in exactly the same place in two atoms at the same time... but they can
be in the same ring (orbit out from the nucleus), and that's what I mean.

It would seem the motions of the electrons work in unison, transferring
force from one atom to the next, rather than, as would normally occur, back
through the nucleus. (Of course, if that were the case, it would seem one
atom alone couldn't be magnetized, it would take at least two.)

Then "polarity" would be determined by the natural direction of orbit of the
electrons around their nucleus, which is the same. Because it's the same,
the magnetic fields generated by the electrons as they orbit their nuclei
"catch" each other, transferring force from one to the next in the line only
in one direction, the direction of electron orbit around the nucleus, and
"throwing" the force on down the series of aligned atoms. Each atom adds
some of its own bled-off force to the chain as it transfers the accumulating
energy, increasing the overall intensity of the magnetic field generated as
the number of atoms in the chain increase.

Well, that's what I "see", anyway, whether it's right or not...? However, if
it is right, magnetic monopoles are not an option, since it's electrons
themselves that give rise to magnetism in the first place.

What I see is strengthened by the fact that electricity doesn't actually
"flow" down wires and such, but rather is a transfer of force from one
electron to the next in an otherwise more-or-less "stationary" chain of
electrons within the medium. That's why electricity doesn't "leak" out of
unused electrical outlets. <grin>

(I sure would love some honest discussion about all this.)

Rob

Be well - Pax


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