Open Physics (Jun 2020)

The heuristic model of energy propagation in free space, based on the detection of a current induced in a conductor inside a continuously covered conducting enclosure by an external radio frequency source

  • Piyadasa Chithra Kirthi Gamini,
  • Annakkage Udaya,
  • Gole Aniruddha,
  • Rajapakse Athula,
  • Premaratne Upeka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/phys-2020-0102
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18, no. 1
pp. 212 – 229

Abstract

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The objective of this study is to propose a heuristic model of energy propagation due to an anomaly; electromagnetic (EM) field penetration into a continuously covered conducting enclosure (Faraday shield) from an external radio frequency source, violating the accepted model in the EM field theory. In this study, at an arbitrarily selected frequency, range of 26.965–1,800 MHz, of an external frequency source, an EM field inside the conducting enclosure was observed, contrary to expectations, which was followed by a systematic examination. Although no induced voltage could be expected inside the enclosure according to the classical theory, the experiment revealed a clear induced voltage inside, an attenuated induced voltage of −18.0 to −1.0 dB (for the range of frequencies 26.965–1,800 MHz) was observed. Hence, these results apparently contradict the established notion that an EM field cannot penetrate a Faraday shield. Rationalizing these observations and the results of the investigation leads to an alternative model to the existing models of energy propagation in free space. In this model, novel quantities named “I-Spin-energy” and “I-Spin-energy field” are defined to replace the concept of electric and magnetic fields in the classical EM theory. The proposed I-Spin-energy model is capable of explaining the unexpected presence of the EM field inside the Faraday shield as well as the induction of an alternating current in a conductor placed inside a Faraday shield along with other existing observations in physics such as those in famous Young’s double-slit experiment on interference of light, which provided the basis for the wave theory.

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