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Magnetic monopoles

Magnetricity near the speed of light

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Faraday and Dirac constructed magnetic monopoles using the practical and mathematical tools available to them. Now physicists have engineered effective monopoles by combining modern optics with nanotechnology. Part matter and part light, these magnetic monopoles travel at unprecedented speeds.

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  1. Steven T. Bramwell is at the London Centre for Nanotechnology and the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, 17-19 Gordon Street, London WC1H OAH, UK,

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