You are no loonie, JAK. Even though I would not be surprised if someone was able to manufacture a monopole, it would be something quite out of the ordinary. Though Hawking mentioned the theory of everything would be something "like North of the Northpole," he used this example as giving words to the option (for he wasn't sure) that a toe is an impossibility (in a singular sense). Possibly, the words were taken for real, and some one tried to find an actual monopole to fit the words. Either way, if it could exist or not, a monopole would not be a normal state.
In an experiment, if you have a bucket of water, add some small particles to it that are contained within the water but not absorbed by it, and spin the water in the bucket, then let the spin die down by itself. If the circumstances are right, all particles end up in a heep in the middle. The lack of movement in the middle when the spin is not as strong anymore put them all right next to each other, clumped, and no gravitational force was required (except of the earth to have the particles float to the bottom). The outer parts of the water still spin somewhat, but are 'emptied out' from all particles. The lack of spin, of movement, is vital in understanding how matter huddles together. By the time the water is no longer spinning, nothing will change the alignment, except when additionally stirring the water. The slowing down process of movement creates holes that aren't holes in which matter collects.
It is important to see that our universe is a state of active balancing, and the no-longer-spinning water in the bucket is not the full example. It is a continuing process, mono-directional (away from the Big Bang) and it contains a lot of locations in which spin is absent in specific relative ways. Our solar system is one of the spots in which matter was attracted to the relative absence of spin (and earth within that complex set of spins) (and the solar system within that larger even more complex set of absences of spin). Naturally, objects themselves stir up the 'water' in that single direction in which the absence of spin is found towards the other objects due to the spin still being there in the other directions. We are moving away from the BB beginning, so we cannot declare our universe to be without movement, but there are relative positions in which movement was/became absent.
The objects are the bearers of the non-movement, with nowhere else to go than to follow the general movement that still pulls and pushes on them.


LinkBack URL
About LinkBacks

Reply With Quote


