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An experiment that ran for 151 days produced signals that suggested the presence of one of these constructs named after a holiday. That experiment is consistent with the proposed (15[1])upper limit for the number of these constructs, which is one per 10-to-the-29 nucleons. The expression [read slowly] “2 q-sub-e q-sub-m all over h-bar c” must be an integer in a physicist’s (15[1])namesake quantization condition (15[1])involving these constructs. (*) Dyons with no (10[1])electrical charge are equivalent to these particles. To explain the topological properties (-5[1])of these particles, Dirac proposed his namesake “strings.” The existence of these particles does not agree (10[2])with Gauss’s law because the divergence of the magnetic field (10[1])would be non-zero. For 10 points, name these particles that only contain a north or south pole, unlike (0[1])magnetic dipoles. ■END■

ANSWER: magnetic monopoles [accept Dirac strings before “Dirac”; accept Valentine’s Day monopole]
<Ezra Santos, Physics>
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