Magnetic monopoles are hypothetical particles with a single magnetic charge — north without south. Predicted by grand unified theories, they may be incredibly massive and could bind together into “magmatter,” an ultra-dense material stronger than anything known in nature.

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Magnetic Monopoles & Magmatter - The Strongest Material That Might Exist

Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

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Chapters

0:00 Intro

4:52 What Magnetic Monopoles Would Do

10:30 Magmatter: Matter Without Atoms

18:48 Nokia 3310

19:55 What You Could Build — and What It Would Cost

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