RE: God did not create any magnetic charges!
May 24, 2017 at 5:01 pm
(This post was last modified: May 24, 2017 at 5:02 pm by Alex K.)
(May 24, 2017 at 4:47 pm)Jehanne Wrote: I am reading Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd edition, by David Griffiths; on page 328, he states, "Apparently God just didn't make any magnetic charge..."
I have noticed this a lot in some of the physics textbooks that I own; is this a standing joke among physicists?
I strongly suspect Griffiths is tongue-in-cheek invoking Einstein's use of God as nature here...
That being said, magnetic monopoles are not ruled out to exist at all. They appear rather automatically in extended field theories as opposed to pure electrodynamics where they are somewhat unnatural.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
