Re: Magnetic Monopoles

[Chuck Britton <britton@NCSSM.EDU>]

WITHOUT making this modification, I could build a simple perpetual
motion machine that generates lots of POWER!!!

Take vertical wire carrying a suitably large current thru it. Perhaps
a superconductor to make it REAL efficient.

Attach a bucket of monopoles to the end of a rod that is free to
rotate around the vertical current-carrying wire.

This bucket of monopoles will be accellerated around the wire by the
wire's magnetic field.
(Don't we ASSUME that a monopole will 'feel' a force equal to
polestrength times field strength?)

Hook this baby up to a generator and - poof- Enron is out of business!!!

(oh, is it any surprise that the Randy-Mac addition to the Maxwell
equations proposed below will add a retarding Electric Force on the
bucket of monopoles that exactly cancels the magnetic force of
acceleration??) i.e. the rotating bucket of poles will STOP the
current in the wire.

At  3:32 PM -0400  on  5/13/02,  Spagna Jr., George   wrote
> Tina asks:
> -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tina Fanetti [mailto:FanettT@QUEST.WITCC.CC.IA.US]
> > Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 3:14 PM
> > To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
> > Subject: Magnetic Monopoles
>
>
> > If a magnetic monopole were found, would Faraday's Law of induction
> > need to be adjusted?
>
> > Tina
>
> Short answer, yes.  Look at the modification of Ampere's law that Maxwell
> introduced, i.e. he included the time-varying electric flux as a source of
> magnetic fields along with current.  Faraday includes the time varying
> magnetic flux as a source of electric fields, so one would need to introduce
> "magnetic currents" into Faraday's law to make it symmetric with the
> extended version of Ampere's law .
>
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