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This part is fun: "Their result has several important consequences. In particular, it predicts that the protons are unstable against decaying into other element

This part is fun: "Their result has several important consequences. In particular, it predicts that the protons are unstable against decaying into other elementary particles, and that magnetic monopoles exist."

alextingle 7y ago
That caught my eye too. Magnetic monopoles would be very useful, if we could find them.
- greesil 7y ago
  What would you do with a magnetic monopole? I might make this an interview question at work. Hmmm
  - hnuser123456 7y ago
    Make an infinite energy machine by having magnets on a rotor, surrounded by monopoles on a stator (or vice versa), so the rotor is infinitely accelerated with no external input energy. Hook it up to an alternator and harness the free power.
    - jcranmer 7y ago
      I'm pretty sure that doesn't work for the same reason that replacing monopoles with charged objects (which we can actually build!) doesn't produce a perpetual motion machine.
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