Fabled monopole magnet could be revealed

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Fabled monopole magnet could be revealed

Fabled monopole magnet could be revealed

Scientists hope to do so using Large Hadron Collider


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Scientists hope to use the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful atom smasher, to create a bizarre magnetic particle completely different from any magnets ever seen.


While most magnets have a north and a south pole, the researchers are aiming to find the fabled magnetic monopole particle, which has only one pole. The only place thought powerful enough to create this particle is the recently opened LHC, a 17 mile-long particle accelerator underground near Geneva, Switzerland.


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Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36121056/ns/te...cience-science/


Source: MSNBC

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