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Mysterious Loops in The Fabric of Reality: Physicists Get First Glimpse of 'Alice Rings'
Science Alert ^ | August 28, 2023 | Mike McRae

Posted on 09/04/2023 8:41:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Strange loops in the fabric of reality have finally been witnessed forming in a super cold gas, providing physicists with an opportunity to study the behaviors of a rather peculiar kind of one-sided magnetism.

Known as 'Alice rings' after the Alice of 'Wonderland' fame, the circular structures were observed by a collaboration between researchers in the US and Finland which already has a long list of discoveries concerning the distortions in quantum fields known as topological monopoles.

The isolated equivalent of a pole on a magnet, monopoles truly sound like something Alice would have seen in her hunt for the white rabbit. Cutting a magnet in half won't succeed in separating its north from south, but monopoles can theoretically arise in the quantum machinery that gives rise to various forces and particles.

One version of the monopole takes the form of an elementary particle, one that has defied all attempts to identify so remains, for now, purely hypothetical.

Yet monopoles can emerge in other settings. The frothing of various quantum fields can give rise to their own style of one-sided magnetism as they swirl, pulling and tugging on their surrounds to give birth to short-lived anomalies that stand out for a split moment before vanishing into the churn once more.

(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: alicerings; astronomy; darbyslick; monopole; physics; science; stringtheory
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To: exinnj

Yes, and “theoretically” and “hypothetical” are scientifically sound words.


21 posted on 09/05/2023 5:06:52 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://www.ashleighbrilliant.com/ashleigh%20brilliant%20--%20home%20page_files/1085.gif)
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To: Libloather

The Moon really does need a Kramden Crater.


22 posted on 09/05/2023 5:12:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://www.ashleighbrilliant.com/ashleigh%20brilliant%20--%20home%20page_files/1085.gif)
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To: TigersEye

One side makes you grow shorter, the other side makes you grow taller.


23 posted on 09/05/2023 5:15:39 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

“...short-lived anomalies that stand out for a split moment before vanishing into the churn once more.”
They have a real poet writing for them...


24 posted on 09/05/2023 5:41:07 AM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: SunkenCiv

25 posted on 09/05/2023 5:49:51 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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To: SunkenCiv

This article needs to get lost in one of the strange loops in the fabric of reality before vanishing in the churn.


26 posted on 09/05/2023 5:58:28 AM PDT by I want the USA back (If genitals don't define gender, how does removing them affirm it? )
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To: Adder

27 posted on 09/05/2023 7:31:42 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: I want the USA back

So does that post.


28 posted on 09/05/2023 7:31:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: norwaypinesavage

Ha.

Gotta have some limits.


29 posted on 09/05/2023 8:54:24 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: SunkenCiv

If we’re going to get out of the solar system —we’re going to need a new physics.

I’m reading increasingly that string theory and quantum gravity that have obsessed scientists for the last 50 years is fantasy physics.


30 posted on 09/05/2023 10:00:47 AM PDT by ckilmer (ui)
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To: I want the USA back

Churn about IS fair play ya’ know?


31 posted on 09/05/2023 10:40:20 AM PDT by Bullish (Either we don't see it coming or they don't... But somebody's got it coming.)
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To: Adder

32 posted on 09/05/2023 12:13:58 PM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: \/\/ayne

Thank you...

You’d think I would get it by now....


33 posted on 09/05/2023 12:14:47 PM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: ckilmer

I keep telling the folks who talk about the “laws of physics”...

Nature is an outlaw.


34 posted on 09/05/2023 12:16:59 PM PDT by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

That’s Roger Waters.


35 posted on 09/05/2023 2:29:30 PM PDT by Churchjack (ask me about the sanctity of pipe organs next)
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