Torsion cycles as non-local magnetic sources in non-orientable spaces
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The idea that electromagnetic charge may be a manifestation of the topology of space has a very long history [Whe, WM, Sor]. The basic configuration considered by Wheeler and Misner was a space that contained a handle-like region, often called a wormhole. This space is traversed by sourceless electric lines of force that enter the wormhole radially through one mouth and exit through the other one some distance away. For an observer situated sufficiently far from the wormhole, space appears approximately flat, but not sourceless: the two mouths look like two pointlike electric charges.
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