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To: Time Traveler who wrote (42795)	12/5/1998
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586660

Time Traveller: <<Well, please don't laugh. When Ali, with Maxwell's help perhaps, finds these elusive magnetic monopoles. All textbooks would have to re-write one of the Oliver Heaviside's equations: Divergence of B = 0. That would easily worth a Nobel prize of some sort.>> Dirac's equation predicts that if 1 magnetic monopole exists anywhere in the universt then it predicts the quantization of charge which we experience in our world. The search or magnetic monopoles have been going on for over 10 years already. The easiest technique is to use a SQUID (SUperconducting Quantum Inteference Device) made of Josephson Junctions to detect these monopoles. A few years ago one scientist claimed that he witnessed a magnetic monopole passed through his SQUID and recorded a jump in his instrument. The experiment was never replicated. However he did notice that the data was recorded on St. Patrick Day at the time when his wife came into the lab looking for him. Maxwell