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> Say you suddenly open a wormhole and gravitational force pours though. This would violate conservation of gravity since now there is gravity when before there
by semi-extrinsic 8y ago
> Say you suddenly open a wormhole and gravitational force pours though. This would violate conservation of gravity since now there is gravity when before there wasn't.
Note that you can replace "open a wormhole" by "suddenly introduce a mass" and this statement is the same. In practice, both "introducing a mass" and "opening a wormhole" cannot be done instantly unless you violate conservation of energy, and as Einstein told us, energy also introduces gravitational force. So as you're turning the wormhole on, you would see the gravitational field increasing slowly and in accordance with conservation of mass and energy. There's no additional "conservation of gravity".
> It's not about having the monopole, it's about creating just one of them, and not creating both at once.
Ah, but this is conservation of magnetic charge. In a world where magnetic monopoles exist, this follows directly from the "full" Maxwell's equations, just like electric charge conservation does. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_equations#Charge_conservation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_equations#Charge_con...
But the point is, we can't even create two magnetic monopoles in a way that conserves total magnetic charge. We literally need a new fundamental particle for this to happen.