{"id":57746,"date":"2017-05-27T19:04:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T02:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/our-quest-to-find-a-one-sided-magnet-just-took-an-unexpected-turn"},"modified":"2017-06-02T14:01:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T21:01:29","slug":"our-quest-to-find-a-one-sided-magnet-just-took-an-unexpected-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/our-quest-to-find-a-one-sided-magnet-just-took-an-unexpected-turn","title":{"rendered":"Our Quest to Find a One-Sided Magnet Just Took an Unexpected Turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/our-quest-to-find-a-one-sided-magnet-just-took-an-unexpected-turn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of the many \u2018white whales\u2019 that theoretical physicists are pursuing, the elusive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/we-re-missing-a-magnetic-monopole-and-our-understanding-depends-on-it\">magnetic monopole<\/a> \u2014 a magnetic with only one pole \u2014 is one of the most confounding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.symmetrymagazine.org\/article\/the-hunt-for-the-truest-north\">Compared to the Higgs boson<\/a> in terms of its potential impact on modern physics, the magnetic monopole has been on scientists\u2019 minds for even longer. And now our best shot at finding it just got weird \u2014 two phenomena that resemble the magnetic monopole have become one.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re unfamiliar with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magnetic_monopole\">magnetic monopole<\/a>, it\u2019s a hypothetical particle that\u2019s long been predicted by quantum physics, but no one has ever been able to prove that it exists.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/our-quest-to-find-the-truest-north-in-the-universe-just-took-an-unexpected-turn\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/our-quest-to-find-the-truest-nor...ected-turn<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the many \u2018white whales\u2019 that theoretical physicists are pursuing, the elusive magnetic monopole \u2014 a magnetic with only one pole \u2014 is one of the most confounding. Compared to the Higgs boson in terms of its potential impact on modern physics, the magnetic monopole has been on scientists\u2019 minds for even longer. And now [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57746","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57954,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57746\/revisions\/57954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}