The Magnetic Monopole Experiment Movie explained in laymans terms:

(Edmonton) An experiment led by a University of Alberta researcher at the European Centre for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, could dramatically change our concepts of basic physics, revolutionize our understanding of the universe and lead to technologies that only exist in science fiction.

U of A physics professor James Pinfold is leading an international team of physicists who are conducting a series of ultra-high energy proton collisions inside the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. From the shrapnel-like debris produced by those collisions, researchers hope to find evidence of a magnetic monopole.

The magnetic monopole is a theoretical particle of matter. Several important theories of physics are built on the belief that monopoles exist and it would be a great scientific coup to prove that, said Pinfold.

If successful, Pinfold says, physics textbooks from university level right down to high school will have to be revised.

Our conventional understanding of magnets tells us they have a north pole and a south pole, said Pinfold. A magnetic monopole has only one pole and that will change our understanding and the potential of electromagnetism, the force that binds particles of matter together. Electromagnet force is the reason that, when I sit down on a chair, I dont fall through it.

Pinfold says the discovery of electronic monopoles will open up a whole new future for materials and technology if scientists can produce large numbers of them. Monopoles could make materials strong enough to withstand a nuclear explosion and could also enable magnetic levitation.

To help explain the science of particle physics and the experiment to find the magnetic monopole Pinfold turned to a U of A colleague, Andy Kale, a research associate in the space physics group. Kale is a big fan of animated movies and says he was quite happy to take on the challenge of the monopole movie. I have no formal training in animation, but I have been tinkering with it for more than 15 years.

The U of A-led experiment is already underway at the LHC and Pinfold says he hopes to find evidence of magnetic monopoles early in 2011. Its quite an honour to be conducting this experiment, said Pinfold. We cant wait till we get our hands on the data from the LHC.

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[luke666808g]

@mikeeboy1000 "anything atheists do is a waste of taxpayers money"

so understanding physics is a waste of time? Does god really want people to be willfully ignorant?

[HiAdrian]

The animation is mint, very good presentation.

[SourRevenge]

Science will save humanity from itself! :)

[ThreeCharlieKilo]

Why can't another particle cause the molecule chains to be broken? Or will the molecules change in different ways depending on whether the monopole is either a north or south monopole?

[simysimss]

i enjoyed this vid

[thejameskan]

Very enjoyable thank you

[msjessypp]

This is a great video

[smuggecko]

Very enjoyable thank you

[AnuSuroh]

such particle cannot exist in this realm of quantum states, like that which.hosts a meson which appears out nowhere traveling 1.7cm b4 going back to realm of.barbelos

[prchecker]

very interesting video thanks

[canadamonster]

16.4 billion

[canadamonster]

so what happened?