There have been several announcements for the discovery of alleged synthetic magnetic monopoles since 2009. This is not something really new; and its relationship to CF-LENR is a huge stretch by any measure at this point.
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > From the comments: > > These kind of articles always fails to properly stress that we are dealing >> with monopole quasiparticles. They are not naked monopoles, and I'd wager >> there may not be any in nature and Maxwell's div B = 0 equation (i.e. >> Gauss' law) won't have to be modified. > > > In this experiment we have a quasiparticle generated at near-absolute-zero > temperatures. The binding energies of quasiparticles are probably such > that they would be washed away long before the high temperatures seen in > LENR are attained. > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is a LENR monopole natural or artificial; you decide. >> > > It seems to me that magnetic monopoles are not even relevant. > > Eric > >
