The Magnetic Monopole Experiment Movie explained in laymans terms:
(Edmonton) An experiment led by a University of Alberta researcher at the European Centre for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, could dramatically change our concepts of basic physics, revolutionize our understanding of the universe and lead to technologies that only exist in science fiction. U of A physics professor James Pinfold is leading an international team of physicists who are conducting a series of ultra-high energy proton collisions inside the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. From the shrapnel-like debris produced by those collisions, researchers hope to find evidence of a magnetic monopole. The magnetic monopole is a theoretical particle of matter. Several important theories of physics are built on the belief that monopoles exist and it would be a great scientific coup to prove that, said Pinfold. If successful, Pinfold says, physics textbooks from university level right down to high school will have to be revised. Our conventional understanding of magnets tells us they have a north pole and a south pole, said Pinfold. A magnetic monopole has only one pole and that will change our understanding and the potential of electromagnetism, the force that binds particles of matter together. Electromagnet force is the reason that, when I sit down on a chair, I dont fall through it. Pinfold says the discovery of electronic monopoles will open up a whole new future for materials and technology if scientists can produce large numbers of them. Monopoles could make materials <b>...</b>
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