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.
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Yes, and “theoretically” and “hypothetical” are scientifically sound words.
The Moon really does need a Kramden Crater.
One side makes you grow shorter, the other side makes you grow taller.
“...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...
This article needs to get lost in one of the strange loops in the fabric of reality before vanishing in the churn.
So does that post.
Ha.
Gotta have some limits.
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.
Churn about IS fair play ya’ know?
Thank you...
You’d think I would get it by now....
I keep telling the folks who talk about the “laws of physics”...
Nature is an outlaw.
That’s Roger Waters.
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