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To: Free ThinkerNY
Spin ice and monopoles. Yeehah!


2 posted on 10/15/2009 3:04:14 PM PDT by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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To: Daffynition

They’re not real monopoles. What the article describes is a technique by which a physicist or engineer can decide where exactly an object’s north and south poles should be. You can move them around over the surface of the object, but ultimately they still always come in pairs and there’s always contiguous spin alignment between them.

It’s a little bit like if I made a necklace made of bar magnets and claimed I had invented a monopole because I can hold up the north end of the necklace while leaving the south end dangling somewhere out of sight.


3 posted on 10/15/2009 3:09:58 PM PDT by Omedalus
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To: Daffynition
...monopoles.

What you're left with when her attraction to you does not match your attraction to her.

10 posted on 10/15/2009 3:41:09 PM PDT by decimon
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To: Daffynition
"Making a monopole":


11 posted on 10/15/2009 3:47:08 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/iding in the2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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