Question
Blas Cabrera Navarro claimed to have observed one of these objects on Valentine’s Day in 1982. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these hypothetical objects that would symmetrize Maxwell’s equations with magnetic charge. These objects only possess a north or south end, unlike the more familiar dipole.
ANSWER: magnetic monopoles
[10m] This physicist postulated that monopoles could arise due to a namesake infinitely-long “string” and proved that monopoles imply the quantization of electric charge. This physicist also names a relativistic generalization of the Schrödinger equation.
ANSWER: Paul Dirac [or Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac; accept Dirac equation or Dirac string or Dirac quantization condition]
[10h] The ’t Hooft–Polyakov (“ut HOHFT POLE-ya-koff”) monopole arises in this theory as a consequence of the Higgs field. This non-abelian gauge theory studies forces under the Lie groups SU(n) (“S-U-N”).
ANSWER: Yang–Mills theory
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 83% | 0% |
Data
| Columbia A | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Yale A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers A | Cornell C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Haverford | Yale B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn A | Princeton A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Princeton B | NYU B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |