Monopole magnetic material

thinhnghiem

Hi all,

During my student time, I was impressed by the conclusion that magnetic only exists in nature in di-pole, that results in the fact that it is impossible for a magnet to have only North pole or South pole.

By my own experiment, recently I have discovered methods to create monopole magnetic material. To say in more detail, I do not have ambition to modify the second Maxwell's equation in electrodynamic divB = 0, or to prove that Dirac theory about existence of magnetic charge is true etc, I simply made the magnetized specimen to have the same kind of pole at both edges (Both north pole or both south pole).

1. Solution 1:
The problem here is that when we cut a magnet in the middle, it results in 2 smaller magnet, each has both north and south pole at 2 edges. When we continue to cut these small magnets, smaller magnet are created again.. and so on. I have put a question that, what happens if I try to weld two magnets into one, by the edges having the same kind of pole?

Then, I bring 2 magnets to a mechanic shop to ask them to weld their north poles together.
(See my attached picture magnet.png). And I have a magnetized specimen that has south poles at both edges, while the North poles were hidden in the middle.

Testing:

The created product was tested by using compass, I put the its two edges in turn near the North, then the South pole of the compass needle for checking. By this way, I found that it made the South pole of compass needle to be pushed away, and attracted its North pole when using both edges.

2. Solution 2:
My original thought came from the fact that a made of steel specimen would become magnetized when contacting with a magnet. When I let one edge of the specimen contacted with the North pole of a magnet, that edge becomes the South pole of a new magnet, while the other edge becomes the North pole. Vice versa, when one edge of the specimen is let contacted with the South pole of a magnet, that edge becomes the North pole, while the other edge becomes the South pole.
Then, I put a question: What happens if I contact 2 edges of one specimen with 2 North poles of 2 different magnets? Will both edges become South poles? Does it really become a magnetized specimen with 2 South pole?

By above thinking, I selected the Gilette razor blades as specimens for my experiment. To do that, I touched a blade by 2 magnets at 2 edges as the attached picture P1010720-1.jpg

The blade must be contacted with 2 magnets by the same kinds of pole, North or South. As shown in the picture, the both edges of the blade are contacted with the North poles. In this case, the final products are majority mono South pole sample. Otherwise, if I touch the blade with 2 South poles at two edges, I will have a mono North pole sample. However, sometimes I get the opposite result.

When doing the contact, the two edges must be touched with the magnet’s poles at the same time. Many times, I failed at the last moment just by touching one edge with magnet before the other awkwardly.

Then, I let it there for around 7 or 8 hours before testing the result.

There is also another way of contacting, as the attached picture P1010719-1.jpg.

Testing:
The final products were tested by using compass, I put the two edges of the blade in turn near the North, then the South pole of the compass needle for checking.

Result:
Many samples of blade pass the testing. Both edges of a mono North pole sample made the North pole of compass needle to be pushed away, and attracted its South pole. Vice versa for the mono South pole sample.

The ratio of pass samples on total is 4/10, i.e. by doing experiments with 10 blades, there are 4 pass at all and 6 fail (becoming di-pole). One of the reasons for failure, as my guessing, is the asynchronous touching of the magnets as saying above.

The mono pole status can be maintained in within 1 or 2 days. After that time, I retested the pass samples and found that they turn into di-pole magnetic.

Conclusion:
Above is the detail information of my solutions to generate mono-pole magnetic samples. By reading this, any member can replicate the experiment. I am still holding the pass samples here for demo in need. You can contact me for more information at email: thinhnb@gmail.com

Any feedback are welcomed


Thinh Nghiem from Vietnam

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Phrak

Put your magnet under a piece of card or paper. Sprinkle iron filings on the paper, and see what your 'monopole' really looks like.

granpa

lets suppose that a regular magnet can be thought of as a north and south monopole connected together. lets suppose you could in fact glue 2 such magnets together as you suggested. but lets not stop there. glue lots of such magnets into a sphere with their north monopoles in the center. can you see why the resulting structure would be uninteresting? it would have absolutely no external field.

clem

I didn't read your post in full, but putting two bar magnets back to back would create a magnetic quadrupole, not a monopole.

thinhnghiem

Hi all,

Firstly, thank you for your feedback.

Here we have 2 different issues: How can we generate monopole magnetic in experiment, and if successful, does it have any application in technology

1. First of all, how to generate monopole magnetic in experiment. If you read my text again, you can see that I have no ambition to change the second equation of Maxwell divergence B = 0, or to discuss Dirac theory about the existence of magnetic charge. I am an engineer, I just comprehend a monopole magnetic specimen simply as a specimen that has 2 heads sharing the same kind of magnetic pole (North or South). You can see in my experiments that I only focused on that thought. I agreed that the first solution may create pseudo monopole, as Clem's comment. Why don't you share your time to try the second one to see if it can be replicated. It's rather easy to do.

2. The second issue referred to Granpa's comment, is this result helpful to any area of engineering? Actually I don't know. Maybe my experiment contributes to the development of many engineering areas like data storage product, electronics spare parts etc. Or maybe finally it has no value at all. So, I posted here for reference. If any engineer reading this forum consider that my thought is helpful, it will be used.

Thinh Nghiem

marcusl

You can't create a monopole from dipole magnets no matter how you try to connect them. You'll always get a quadrupole with the arrangement in solution 1. If you want to call it a monopole, well, that's up to you but you won't be able to speak with anyone else (including here at PF) without confusion. Another comment: your measurement apparatus (compass) is much too crude for you to determine what you have. Follow phrak's suggestion--it will allow you to visualize the H field lines, and you will see that they always loop.

I can't follow your description of "solution 2"; I'm guessing that your magnet is too weak to consistently magnetize the razor blade.

thinhnghiem

Yes, the razor blade is rather weakly magnetized. However, it is strong enough to make the compass needle turning. If you follow my instruction to let razor contact with magnets within 7 - 8 hours, it will have effect.

I will try phrak's suggestion.

Nick89

I don't want to sound rude, but do you honestly expect that so many people, having searched for magnetic monopoles for so long, never came up with the idea to stick two magnets together?

thinhnghiem

Hi Nick89,

Yes, I have. I do not determine that I am quite right, that's the why I post my actions here for feedback. But I know that sometimes many development in science and technology come from very simple initial thought. Many people did not come up with it just because it's too simple, while they are thinking about complicated issues. Who could imagine that the first microscope was made just by 2 lens put far from each other with reasonable distance, and the optic fibre technology began with a very basic effect in optic, the Tyndall effect about wholly reflection.

Thanks for your opinion

ZapperZ

But these were done by experts in those fields, not by some amateurs.

If you are still convinced you have a "monopole", then map out the field made by your configuration. The rest of us are convinced you don't have a monopole. Until you can show such mapping, there is no evidence that you have a monopole.

Zz.

Defennder

Wait, I want to make sure I got this correct. I didn't read the entire first post, but it seems all the OP has done is to simply tape like poles of two separate magnets and he now has a monopole?

Nick89

Correction: he believes he has a monopole.

thinhnghiem

I have been consulted by some specialists in this area. Now I agree that I am wrong. I think we can stop this topic here. Thank you all for your opinions.

N468989

Hi! i have a question for the most known in this area. I have a magnet. if i cut it in half i get two other magnets, each with 2 poles north and south. My question is if i continuously divide them in less and less pieces into very very small pieces are the north and south poles still "there".?

On the other hand is it like mawells laws of electromagentism? "Electric field is a Magnetic field". One doesnt exist without the other. What "we" are trying to do is impossible. A magnetic North pole creates a South pole and vice-versa. One is the other. Thats why we cannot separate it.
What happens when we cut a magnet in half? there is a creation of another pole! (one creates the other!)

Example: take for instance a resistance. for a resistance R we want to separate admittance. This is nonsense, one "is" the other.

Edit: What could be discovered is a way of "killing out the creation of that pole", that is, what is the process involved when we cut the magnet? What's the "reaction that makes its tick"?


I would like to hear some good comments on this thankyou!

Nick89

Magnetic north and south poles are not two separate 'things'. When you cut a magnet in half, you do not create a pole of the other 'sign', it was already there, merely hidden by the fact that there are so many tiny magnets (the atoms themselves) with all their magnetic fields pointing in roughly the same direction.

If you keep cutting up a magnet you will have a magnetic north and south pole until you reach a single atom. The atom has a magnetic moment (due to the (classically) orbiting electron(s) which are accelerating charges) and hence still can be thought of as a north and south pole.

If a magnetic monopole would be found, it would have to consist of something we have not discovered yet. As far as I know there is no way to create a monopole with the current facts we believe true.

cabraham

If you want a field that resembles a "monopole", then here is my suggestion. At distances very close to one pole of a bar magnet, the other pole is too far away to exert much influence. This is for all practical purposes a virtual monopole. The field is like that of a monopole if it existed.

Motors/generators make use of this property since day one. BR.

Claude

N468989

If we then take a infintly large magnet we would get at the extremities an ideal monopole, thus study the properties of such.

In this matter, we can define regions, where we consider monopole region, or the dipole region.

I think it is important to study this phenomenon. We can learn many things