It is a prediction of some physical theories that magnetic monopoles could exist from the origin of the universe (and it kinda seems like they should, 'cause ot

It is a prediction of some physical theories that magnetic monopoles could exist from the origin of the universe (and it kinda seems like they should, 'cause other than the existence of one kind of charge and the other, there's no good reason to see either half of electromagnetism as more fundamental than the other- both kinds of field can generate the other, and how much of each one you think you have depends on your inertial frame since they're relativistic transformations of each other), but no one has shown that you can make them, pulling the poles of a magnet apart like you can pull electrons away from protons.