And should that signal turn out to be evidence for cosmic strings or
magnetic monopoles instead, it would still constitute exciting new physics at the frontier of cosmology.
Not exact matches
The existence of hypothetical particles called
magnetic monopoles would explain why electric charge comes in integer multiples of the charge of an electron
instead of a continuous range of values, Emily Conover reported in «Magnets with a single pole are still giving physicists the slip» (SN: 2/3/18, p. 10).
A future incarnation of MoEDAL, located on a mountaintop
instead of in an accelerator's cavern, could look for such
magnetic monopoles that sprinkle down on Earth from space, Pinfold says.