• expatriado@lemmy.world
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    wait, one of Maxwells equations states that monopoles are impossible, that’s a lot of textbooks that would have to be rewritten 😂

    • Socialist Mormon Satanist@lemmy.worldOP
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      that’s a lot of textbooks that would have to be rewritten

      Which would be awesome. I love it when there is a breakthrough big enough to mean rewrites have to happen.

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        3 months ago

        They “rewrite” them every year anyway so might as well get some new science in there

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      IIRC he wrote his equations assuming that magnetic monopoles are impossible because we’ve never found one. There are a lot of things that would be more symmetric if they existed, though.

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    Weren’t Magnetic Monopoles discovered a few yars ago already? Im sure i saw some article about it.

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      Magnetic monopoles, cheap high-capacity batteries, cold fusion, carbon capture, they all find their way into headlines every once and a while.