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Magnetic Monopoles (Alice Rings) Observed - centurion20000 - 09-06-2023
Alice Rings link to article
Long time lurker but this was pretty noteworthy.
Excerpt:
A team of researchers from the United States and Finland have observed enigmatic "Alice Rings" in super cold gas for the first time. A strange kind of circular magnetic monopoles, "Alice Rings" are a kind of quantum phenomenon that has, until now, only existed in theory. Various forces and particles can arise from the quantum machinery, theoretically including monopoles.
RE: Magnetic Monopoles (Alice Rings) Observed - Drashner1 - 09-06-2023
Interesting! Will give this a read thru when time permits.
Thanks for sharing this!
Todd
RE: Magnetic Monopoles (Alice Rings) Observed - Drashner1 - 09-07-2023
Gave this a read thru - I think these are a different type of monopole (unstable for one thing) than the kind that are described in OA, but it's positive that any kind of monopole can exist at all. Now if we can just find something like the ones in OA that catalyze proton decay and stick around for a significant period of time.
Todd
RE: Magnetic Monopoles (Alice Rings) Observed - centurion20000 - 10-19-2023
Another follow up piece on this, but some layman's discussion on the potential follow-on discoveries.
Anti-monopole conversion similar to q-balls.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a44943490/alice-rings-quantum-physics/
RE: Magnetic Monopoles (Alice Rings) Observed - Tom Mazanec - 10-22-2023
80 milliseconds in advanced physics is like 80 millennia.
Maybe we can get interesting stuff out of this.