Does "magmatter" Exist?

[TomKalbfus]

Magmatter requires the existence of particles called magnetic monopoles. monopoles are particles that exert unipolar magnetic fields of either magnetic north or south.

Electrons, protons, and neutrons might have magnetic monopole cousins. You might be able to create a magnetic monopole hydrogen atom by having a more massive magnetic monopole be orbited by a less massive monopole of the opposite magnetic charge. This has been posited in the Orion's Arm website. So what do you think, is this total fiction or could such a thing exist?

[exchemist]

Magmatter requires the existence of particles called magnetic monopoles. monopoles are particles that exert unipolar magnetic fields of either magnetic north or south.

Electrons, protons, and neutrons might have magnetic monopole cousins. You might be able to create a magnetic monopole hydrogen atom by having a more massive magnetic monopole be orbited by a less massive monopole of the opposite magnetic charge. This has been posited in the Orion's Arm website. So what do you think, is this total fiction or could such a thing exist?

Magnetic monopoles were predicted by Dirac, I gather, so they may yet be found. A magnetic analogue of the hydrogen atom is certainly an interesting idea. If monopoles exist, then why not?

 

But I confess I do not understand magnetic monopoles, seeing as magnetism is generally taken to be an effect of relativity on electrostatic charges in in motion. If you do understand them it might be worthwhile to start a thread on how they can be envisaged.

[TomKalbfus]

t would be useful if it exists. According to Orion's arm, magnetic monopoles would be much more massive and smaller than protons, electrons and neutrons. Magmatter would therefore be denser, and in fact if you got too much together in one spot, it would collapse into a black hole. Making magmatter according to them would take a lot more energy that the usual matter and antimatter. In fact magmatter would destabilize ordinary atoms and convert them to energy without destroying themselves. The chemical bonds of magmatter would be stronger than ordinary matter as well, it approaches the nuclear bonding strength of atoms according to them.