Gravity: We might have been getting it wrong

Re:Gravity: We might have been getting it wrong by greesil on Friday January 24, 2020 @04:23PM (#22142596)

This part is fun: "Their result has several important consequences. In particular, it predicts that the protons are unstable against decaying into other elementary particles, and that magnetic monopoles exist."

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Re:Gravity: We might have been getting it wrong by alextingle on Friday January 24, 2020 @07:20PM (#22143620)

That caught my eye too. Magnetic monopoles would be very useful, if we could find them.

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Re:Gravity: We might have been getting it wrong by greesil on Friday January 24, 2020 @08:09PM (#22143950)

What would you do with a magnetic monopole? I might make this an interview question at work. Hmmm

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Re:Gravity: We might have been getting it wrong by hnuser123456 on Friday January 24, 2020 @08:49PM (#22144106)

Make an infinite energy machine by having magnets on a rotor, surrounded by monopoles on a stator (or vice versa), so the rotor is infinitely accelerated with no external input energy. Hook it up to an alternator and harness the free power.

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Re:Gravity: We might have been getting it wrong by jcranmer on Friday January 24, 2020 @10:38PM (#22144480)

I'm pretty sure that doesn't work for the same reason that replacing monopoles with charged objects (which we can actually build!) doesn't produce a perpetual motion machine.

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