Hi Carl,
Originally Posted by
crutschow
I believe that without a path for the magnetic flux from the inside to the outside, you will have no flux on the outside. It will act as a non-magnetized ball.
Well yes but, that's from what we know TODAY. Tomorrow someone could find out something
new which changes the way we think about this. That's what i mean about
"incomplete knowledge", in that we always have an incomplete view of the universe. We always
think we have it all, then it turns out that we dont when something new contradicts an old theory.
The nice thing is that we can use our imagination first to ask ourselves questions like,
"Is there a monopole?" and then go out looking for one. It's also hard to prove that there is
no such thing because we may not be doing the right experiment yet, or the experiment to
produce such a thing may be extremely hard to do in the lab and of course may not exist
naturally anywhere we look.
It's interesting to note that H.G. Wells wrote about the atomic bomb 20 or 30 years before it actually
was possible, when one of the top physicists said that the energy in the atom "could not be liberated".
Wells used his imagination, but the physicist believed more in his experiments than in historical record.