There Could be Magnetic Monopoles Trapped in the Earth's Magnetosphere

A visualization of Earth's magnetosphere. Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio

Electricity and magnetism have a lot in common. They are connected by the unified theory of electromagnetism, and are in many ways two sides of the same coin. Both can exert forces on charges and magnetic fields. A changing electric field creates a magnetic field and vice versa. Elementary particles can possess electric and magnetic properties. But there is one fundamental difference.

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