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Old 06-July-2009, 11:08 AM
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What would "magnetic flow" be a flow of? A scalar quantity "north"? You would need magnetic monopoles. The question is why imagining a magnetic field to be constructed of magnetic monopoles doesn't work well.
I've always been confused about how a magnetic monopole would actually be constructed. I know they're theoretical, but some people do believe they exist...someplace else, or in the early universe.

But how would you structure matter to create such a thing? Has anyone designed any models of how atoms could arrange themselves to only have a single pole? I don't have a conception of how this could actually work in nature.

Rob
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