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- The regular theory of magnetic monopoles, namely, the postulates used for
its constraction. For details,
click here.
- Like the electric charge, values of the magnetic charge are quantized. However,
note that, unlike the Dirac theory of monopoles, here the quantum of the magnetic
charge is a free parameter. This property relieves the theory of the
burden of using the gigantic value
of a Dirac monopole where g2=34.25.
- In order to keep 3 valence quarks in a stable baryonic state, it is postulated that
baryons have a core. The core has 3 units of positive magnetic charge and each quark has
one unit of negative magnetic charge. Hence, the sum of the magnetic charge
of baryons (and of mesons) vanishes.
- Relying on experimental data, it is postulated that the quantum of the monopole
charge is much greater than that of the electric charge where e2=1/137.
(Hence, unlike in many cases of atomic physics, an analysis of hadronic
structure cannot
treat relativistic effects as a small perturbation.)
A corollary derived from these postulates is that each baryon resembles a
neutral nonionized
atom. Hence, some properties of nuclei can be immediately inferred from the
corresponding properties of liquids. In this overview, this conclusion is called
"the nucleus-liquid drop similarity."
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