I just saw this on the GQRP list courtesy of Trevor, M5AKA. Students at my old stomping grounds, New Mexico State University are building QRP tranceivers. They're being assisted by Bob Hull who manages the capstone projects program. Bob KD5KKM is an awesome guy who has helped innumerable students at NMSU and helped me with my research project while I was there.
There's an assymetry to the form of the two Maxwell's equations shown in picture 1. While the divergence of the electric field is proportional to the electric charge density at a given point, the divergence of the magnetic field is equal to zero. This is typically explained in the following way. While we know that electrons, the fundamental electric charge carriers exist, evidence seems to indicate that magnetic monopoles, the particles that would carry magnetic 'charge', either don't exist, or, the energies required to create them are so high that they are exceedingly rare. That doesn't stop us from looking for them though! Keeping with the theme of Fairbank[1] and his academic progeny over the semester break, today's post is about the discovery of a magnetic monopole candidate event by one of the Fairbank's graduate students, Blas Cabrera[2]. Cabrera was utilizing a loop type of magnetic monopole detector. Its operation is in...
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