Monopole

A design catalog for an impossible particle

MN-001

Radial Field

The canonical monopole. Radial symmetry in all directions.

TOPOLOGY: SPHERICAL RADIAL SYMMETRY: O(3) FIELD STRENGTH: 1/r2
MN-002

Dual Arc

Field curvature study. Upper and lower hemispheres.

TOPOLOGY: HEMISPHERICAL CURVATURE: POSITIVE APPLICATION: CONFINEMENT
MN-003

Concentric

Inverse-square falloff rendered as opacity gradient.

TOPOLOGY: CONCENTRIC RINGS DECAY: INVERSE SQUARE MATERIAL: GLASS + BRASS
MN-004

Hexapole

Six-fold symmetry variant. Pure geometric radiation.

TOPOLOGY: HEXAGONAL RADIAL ARMS: 6 ANGLE: 60deg SPACING
MN-005

Section View

Cross-section through the equatorial plane.

TOPOLOGY: PLANAR CROSS-SECTION PLANE: EQUATORIAL SCALE: 1:10^-15
MN-006

Flow Lines

Field line topology study. Continuous divergence.

TOPOLOGY: DIVERGENT FLOW DIVERGENCE: NON-ZERO TYPE: MAGNETIC SOURCE

Technical Specifications

Field TopologyRadial (spherically symmetric)
Magnetic Chargeg (Dirac quantum)
Mass (GUT)~10^16 GeV/c2
Spin0 (scalar)
Predicted ByDirac (1931), 't Hooft-Polyakov (1974)
Detection StatusUnconfirmed
Search MethodSQUID detectors, track chambers, collider
Cabrera Event14 February 1982 (single candidate)
Dirac Conditioneg = nhc/2 (n integer)
Cosmological OriginPhase transition, T ~ 10^28 K
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