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Large Hadron Collider pipe brings search for elusive magnetic monopole closer than ever (phys.org)

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[–] pennomi 4 points 4 months ago

IIRC he wrote his equations assuming that magnetic monopoles are impossible because we’ve never found one. There are a lot of things that would be more symmetric if they existed, though.