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Re: starship-design: Magnetic Monopole
kyle writes:
> > If your object is a dipole (and I strongly suspect it is, you probably
> > just aren't being careful enough about measuring the field) then it will
> > show orientation in a magnetic field consistent with that; it will line
> > up differently depending on the direction of an externally-applied
> > magnetic field.
>
> Its a dipole, but with monopolar qualities. A south field is produced
> (and only south) on the inside of the device, and only north on the
> outside. I still think its useful though.
That's too easy not to have been tried before. I know there has to be
some reason why you can't just build a ball of dipoles with all the
south poles pointing in and north poles pointing out and have that be a
monopole, but I'm not knowledgeable enough about electromagnetism to say
why at the moment.
You should probably get together with a good physics teacher and find
out whether what you've built could really work like you think it does.