New twist for monopoles
Jan 10, 2004
There is a surprising lack of symmetry in
Maxwell’s equations of electromagnetism.
Electric fields are created by electric charges,
while magnetic fields are produced by the
movement of electric charges. Magnetic
charges are completely absent from the theory,
not because Maxwell forgot to put them
in, but because isolated magnetic charges do
not seem to exist in the real world.
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