Re: Magnetic monopoles

[palmer@sfu.ca (Leigh Palmer)]

> > No. Magnetic monopoles do appear in some particle physics theorties,
> > however, and there is room left for them in classical electrodynamics.
> > It is obvious that they can be added to Maxwell's equations. Quantum
>
> But just in a ficticious manner, isn't it?, i.e., you may describe
> the B field configuration of a permanent magnetic bar by means of
> two distributions of opposite charged magnetic charges (sorry)
> placed at the end faces ortogonal to the B direction at the center,
> in a way similar to a charged capacitor. However that's only
> a math tool...B-flux through any closed surface must still be zero.!

No, I didn't mean just magnetostatics. It is easy to add a source term
to each of two of the Maxwell equations (div B and curl E) to accommodate
monopoles. The equations become more manifestly symmetrical in their
conventional form when this is done. I didn't say that Nature provides
the particles to make these terms nonzero.

Leigh