Observation of Dirac monopoles in a synthetic magnetic field

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I'd say the answer is "not in the simple sense of something...

User Pepper_Indigo, in the AskPhysics subreddit, 01 Jan 2026

I'd say the answer is "not in the simple sense of something analogous to a 1-pole- piece of magnetite". Dirac's monopoles…

#####[A little bit more connected with...

User Jillian_Wallace-Bach, in the VisualMath subreddit, 14 Feb 2024

#####[A little bit more connected with this](https://media.springernature.com/full/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fnatur…

#####[A little bit more connected with...

User Jillian_Wallace-Bach, in the Math Pics: What math looks like subreddit, 14 Feb 2024

#####[A little bit more connected with this](https://media.springernature.com/full/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fnatur…

well, Cosmological Inflation was proposed by Alan Guth, it...

User BLUE_GTA3, in the Aliens subreddit, 17 Oct 2023

well, Cosmological Inflation was proposed by Alan Guth, it explained the flatness problem, the horizon problem and the magnetic…

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