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by elashri
858 days ago
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When Maxwell first published his work with the equations, it contained non-zero B divergence. We say that density of magnetic monopole (which should be there instead of zero) is zero because we did not find any monopoles yet (maybe ever!). If we discover a monopole, and we remove this zero, there will no problems with EM theory, and actually we can explain some other things like quantization of electric charge (why all charge are integer multiple of electron charge). So no, it was not explicitly ruled out by Maxwell's equations. It is not even ruled out because we did not explore the full phase space. And it depends on which monopole you are talking about (Dirac monopole, GUT monopole or EW monopole). |
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