{"id":236389,"date":"2026-05-02T19:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T00:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/why-magnetic-monopoles-should-exist"},"modified":"2026-05-02T19:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T00:10:18","slug":"why-magnetic-monopoles-should-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/why-magnetic-monopoles-should-exist","title":{"rendered":"Why Magnetic Monopoles SHOULD Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dw1sekg6SUY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord!<br \/> \/ pbsspacetime.<\/p>\n<p>What happens if you cut a bar magnetic in half? We get two magnets, each with their own North and South poles. But what happens if you keep on cutting, into fourths and eighths and sixteenths and so on? Will we ever get to a single pole? I\u2019ll spoil the answer for you: we don\u2019t know! But the idea of magnetic monopoles remains one of physics\u2019 most tantalizing maybes.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the Space Time Merch Store<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbsspacetime.com\/shop\">https:\/\/www.pbsspacetime.com\/shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the mailing list to get episode notifications and hear special announcements!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/1a6eb8f2717d\/space\">https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/1a6eb8f2717d\/space<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Matt O\u2019Dowd<br \/> Written by Dan Garisto &amp; Matt O\u2019Dowd<br \/> Graphics by Leonardo Scholzer, Yago Ballarini, Pedro Osinski, Adriano Leal &amp; Stephanie Faria<br \/> GFX Visualizations: Ajay Manuel<br \/> Directed by Andrew Kornhaber<br \/> Assistant Producer: Setare Gholipour<br \/> Executive Producers: Eric Brown &amp; Andrew Kornhaber.<\/p>\n<p>End Credits Music by J.R.S. Schattenberg: \/ multidroideka.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/why-magnetic-monopoles-should-exist\">Continue reading \u201cWhy Magnetic Monopoles SHOULD Exist\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! \/ pbsspacetime. What happens if you cut a bar magnetic in half? We get two magnets, each with their own North and South poles. But what happens if you keep on cutting, into fourths and eighths and sixteenths and so on? Will we [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}