{"id":3927398,"date":"2026-08-07T16:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/crossing-into-a-mirror-world-particles-turn-to-wisps-of-fog-and-the-magnetic-monopole-paradox-dissolves\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T16:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:03:12","slug":"crossing-into-a-mirror-world-particles-turn-to-wisps-of-fog-and-the-magnetic-monopole-paradox-dissolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/crossing-into-a-mirror-world-particles-turn-to-wisps-of-fog-and-the-magnetic-monopole-paradox-dissolves\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing into a mirror world: Particles turn to wisps of fog, and the magnetic monopole paradox dissolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In Goethe&#8217;s ballad &#8220;Erlk\u00f6nig,&#8221; immortalized in Schubert&#8217;s fevered 1815 setting, a dying boy riding through the night sees a spectral king beckoning from the darkness. His father calms him: &#8220;Mein Sohn, es ist ein Nebelstreif&#8221;\u2014my son, it is only a wisp of fog. In the poem, the father&#8217;s reassurance proves tragically wrong. In the quantum world, however, his words acquire an uncanny new meaning.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-mirror-world-particles-wisps-fog.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Goethe&#8217;s ballad &#8220;Erlk\u00f6nig,&#8221; immortalized in Schubert&#8217;s fevered 1815 setting, a dying boy riding through the night sees a spectral king beckoning from the darkness. His father calms him: &#8220;Mein Sohn, es ist ein Nebelstreif&#8221;\u2014my son, it is only a wisp of fog. In the poem, the father&#8217;s reassurance proves tragically wrong. In the quantum [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}