PBS Space Time | Why Magnetic Monopoles Should Exist
What happens if you cut a bar magnetic in half? We get two magnets, each with their own North and South poles.
2021-10-05 19:00:00 - PBS Space Time
But what happens if you keep on cutting, into fourths and eighths and sixteenths and so on? Will we ever get to a single pole? I’ll spoil the answer for you: we don’t know!
But the idea of magnetic monopoles remains one of physics’ most tantalizing maybes.