Maxwell 150: The Missing Part of the Maxwell Equations - Monopoles
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King's College London (UK)
King's College London (UK)
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In the absence of matter, Maxwell's equations are completely symmetric in that magentic fields and electric fields behave identically and are completely interchangable. The same is not true of the matter we observe in the Universe today - we see particles with electric charge but no-one has ever observed a particle with magnetic charge. These magnetic "monopoles" are predicted to exist in various theories however and there are several active searches for them.
Gerard 't Hooft is widely accepted as being one of the finest living theoretical physicists and won the Nobel Prize for his contribution to the unification of the electromagnetic and weak interactions. He also has worked on the theory of monopoles so he is uniquely qualified to talk to us about this subject.
Jim Pinfold is head of the MoEDAL collaboration at CERN which is looking for exotic particles created in high energy proton collisions at the LHC, including monopoles. He has a long interest in monopole searches and will give us an update on these efforts.
