I use Unified Spinor Fields (USF), to discuss the creation of magnetic monopoles during preinflation, as excitations of the quantum vacuum coming from a condensate of massive charged vector bosons. For a primordial universe with total energy M p , and for magnetic monopoles created with a total Planck magnetic charge q M = q P = ±e/ √ α and a total mass m M , it is obtained after quantisation of the action that the fine-structure constant is given by: α = 5 6 1 − 16 mM