From: utzoo!decvax!cca!John@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: re: monopoles in space
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2274
Posted: Sun Jul 25 03:37:20 1982
Received: Wed Jul 28 03:15:37 1982

Think I missed something.  Is it really "possible to create monopolar
magnets in a gravitational field"?  What does gravity have to do with
it?  How can you possibly make a monopolar magnet without magnetic
monpoles?  
   On a slightly related subject, there was a Larry Niven story about
prospectors in the asteroid belt searching for monopoles (I think
it was the opening to "Protector").  Niven claimed that instruments
using monopoles had a sensitivity that dropped off as the radius R
rather than as R squared.  That sure doesn't sound right to me. Does
anyone know if there is anything to it?  I would think that the field
from a monpole would drop off with R^2 in just the same way as the 
electric field from a charge.
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