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A substantial part of the question: "If we make an assumption and say : monopoles do exist, they are not rare and detecting experimets are flawless, but we are still not able to detect them. How can we explain this situation ? Could they have some properties which prevent them from being detected by our current experimental designs ? Is this a possibilty ? However some efforts have been made to explain why we don't see them. Standard Big Bang cosmology suggests that monopoles should be plentiful -- this is one of the problems which inflation theory claims to correct, The currently popular inflationary model of cosmology predicts that magnetic monopoles would not be observable. So, should the Cosmic Inflation model be considered to solve this observative problem for the Magnetic Monopoles ?"
There is a contradiction there. "flawless experiments" would find monopoles if they were there, so, if monopoles exist then the experiments are not flawless. Many people are continuing to work on how to make experiments better.
Secondly, the jury is still out on cosmology models, but my personal opinion is that the inflationary models are better for many reasons, one of them being that the lack of monopoles is explained. Stay tuned for further developments....
Also, there is a good bit of information in our archives about monopoles, which you can find using our search engine.
John Link, MadSci Physicist
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