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. --------