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I don't really understand your point here. If we do discover magnetic monopoles (which would not necessarily be very weak but instead very rare) then we would take the equation

Div(B) = 0

And update it to say

Div(B) = sigma

Where sigma is a field describing the monopole density. Theres a ready "gap" in Gauss' law for magnetism where you can easily stick monopoles. Of course the divergence would be zero in the absence of monopoles, just as the divergence of the electric field is zero in the absence of electric monopoles, but decidedly non-zero when there's an electron around.

It looks like this is already a polarizing topic

+1 ;)

Not too many got the joke it seems :D

Well I wasn't sure if it would be downvoted due to low effort, but it got 17 points, so thanks :p

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