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April 13, 20260 citationsOpen Access

Absence of Magnetic Monopoles as a Structural Constraint in Temporal Rate Ontology

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GKGeorgios Kouvidis

Key Points

  • The research aims to explain why magnetic monopoles have not been observed, investigating constraints within Temporal Rate Ontology.
  • Analyzed theoretical frameworks allowing for magnetic monopoles.
  • Proposed structural explanations based on acyclic continuation in Temporal Rate Ontology.
  • Distinguished between different types of monopoles and their structural implications.
  • Dirac monopoles require a non-local boundary condition that contradicts local extensions.
  • 't Hooft-Polyakov monopoles are blocked by local admissibility constraints and involve higher homotopy groups.
  • Falsifiable predictions regarding the existence of fundamental versus emergent monopoles were established.

Abstract

Magnetic monopoles are theoretically permitted within classical and quantum field frameworks, yet remain empirically unobserved. We propose a structural explanation within Temporal Rate Ontology (TRO), in which physical realizability is determined not by kinematic admissibility of field equations alone, but by the existence of globally consistent, acyclic continuation structures that can be assembled through local admissible extensions. We treat both the Dirac monopole (singular, string construction) and the 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole (non-singular, arising via spontaneous symmetry breaking). We show that Dirac monopole configurations require a non-local boundary condition propagating along the Dirac string that cannot be generated by any sequence of local DAG extensions, and that 't Hooft-Polyakov monopoles require the assembly of a non-trivial element of the second homotopy group of the vacuum manifold, which is likewise blocked by local admissibility constraints. The Principle of Maximal Freedom provides an independent suppression argument. We distinguish fundamental monopoles, which are structurally excluded, from emergent monopole-like quasiparticles and admissible topological defects such as vortices, which arise from locally constructible winding of an order parameter rather than from a localized source of magnetic flux. Falsifiable predictions follow directly.

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Georgios Kouvidis (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69dc88f43afacbeac03eab06https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19515872
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