Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!kcarroll From: kcarroll@utzoo.UUCP (Kieran A. Carroll) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: big bangs / ultimate problems Message-ID: <3837@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-May-84 14:57:35 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.3837 Posted: Fri May 11 14:57:35 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 11-May-84 14:57:35 EDT References: <12225@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 12 * The New Physice (according to a recent Scientific American article) indicate that magnetic monopoles, should they exist (the theories predict that they should, but in minute numbers) would be able to catalyze the decay of protons, attended with a rather vast release of energy. If we could find and capture a few monopoles, they'd make a greatpower source, better even than fusion promises to be. -Kieran A. Carroll ...decvax!utzoo!kcarroll