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Dr. Rainer W. Kühne
kuehne70@gmx.de 

Two independent experiments were performed at the University of Vienna/Austria and at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. According to my interpretation, the result is that (visible) light consists of two kinds. The second kind ("magnetic photon rays") would be able to penetrate metal foils of several mm thickness. 

More information on my theory and the experiments can be found at:
R. W. Kühne, "Possible Observation of a Second Kind of Light", in: Has the Last Word Been Said on Classical Electrodynamics?, Eds.: A. Chubykalo, V. Onoochin, R. Smirnov-Rueda und A. Espinoza, (Rinton Press, Paramus, 2004, ISBN 1-58949-036-3), pp. 335-349.

http://www.rintonpress.com/books/chuby.html

http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0403026

Theory

Quantum electrodynamics is the quantum field theory of electric and magnetic phenomena. This theory has one shortcoming. It cannot explain why electric charge is quantized, i.e. why it appears only in discrete units.

By contrast, any theory which includes magnetic monopoles requires and explains the quantization of electric charge.

A theory of electric and magnetic phenomena which includes magnetic monopoles can be formulated in a manifestly covariant and symmetrical way if two four-potentials are used. Within the framework of a quantum field theory one four-potential corresponds to Einstein's electric photon and the other four-potential corresponds to Salam's magnetic photon. 

I formulated a generalization of quantum electrodynamics [1, 2], where the Lorentz force between an electric charge and a magnetic charge is generated as follows. An electric charge couples via the well-known vector coupling with an electric photon and via a new type of tensor coupling, named velocity coupling, with a magnetic photon. This velocity coupling requires the existence of a velocity operator.

For scattering processes this velocity is the relative velocity between the electric charge and the magnetic charge just before the scattering. For emission and absorption processes there is no possibility of a relative velocity. The velocity is the absolute velocity of the electric charge just before the reaction.

The absolute velocity of a terrestrial laboratory was measured by the dipole anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation. The mean value of the laboratory's absolute velocity is 371 km/s. It has an annual sinusoidal period because of the Earth's motion around the Sun with 30 km/s. It has also a diurnal sinusoidal period because of the Earth's rotation with 0.5 km/s.

According to my theory [1, 2], each process that produces electric photons does create also magnetic photons. The cross-section of magnetic photons in a terrestrial laboratory is roughly one million times smaller than that of electric photons of the same energy. The exact value varies with time and has both the annual and the diurnal period.

As a consequence, magnetic photons are one million times harder to create, to shield, and to absorb than electric photons of the same energy. More precisely, these values are correct only for interactions of free electric charges with photons. However, in metals we do not have free electric charges nor free photons, therefore these values have to be corrected.

The easiest test to verify/falsify the second kind of light is to illuminate a metal foil of thickness 1,...,100 micrometers by a laser beam (or any other bright light source) and to place a detector (avalanche diode or photomultiplier tube) behind the foil. If a single foil is used, then the expected reflection losses are less than 1%. If a laser beam of the visible light is used, then the absorption losses are less than 15%.








References

1. R. W. Kühne, Mod. Phys. Lett. A 12, 3153-3159 (1997)

http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/9708394

http://www.worldscinet.com/mpla/12/1240/S0217732397003277.html .

2. R. W. Kühne, Electromagnetic Phenomena 3, (9), 86-91 (2003)

http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0205229

http://www.emph.com.ua/9/pdf/kuhne.pdf

The preprint of my article where I report on the possible observation of the second kind of light (magnetic photon rays) is available via the following addresses:

http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0403026
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0403/0403026.pdf
http://de.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0403026
http://de.arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0403/0403026.pdf
http://au.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0403026
http://au.arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0403/0403026.pdf
http://br.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0403026
http://br.arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0403/0403026.pdf
http://cn.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0403026
http://cn.arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0403/0403026.pdf
http://fr.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0403026
http://fr.arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0403/0403026.pdf
http://in.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0403026
http://in.arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0403/0403026.pdf
http://il.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0403026
http://il.arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0403/0403026.pdf
http://it.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0403026
http://it.arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0403/0403026.pdf
http://jp.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0403026
http://jp.arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0403/0403026.pdf
http://ru.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0403026
http://ru.arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0403/0403026.pdf
http://za.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0403026
http://za.arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0403/0403026.pdf
http://kr.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0403026
http://kr.arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0403/0403026.pdf
http://es.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0403026
http://es.arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0403/0403026.pdf
http://tw.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0403026
http://tw.arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0403/0403026.pdf
http://uk.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0403026
http://uk.arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0403/0403026.pdf
http://aps.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0403026
http://aps.arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0403/0403026.pdf
http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0403026
http://lanl.arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0403/0403026.pdf
http://xxx.arxiv.cornell.edu/abs/physics/0403026
http://xxx.arxiv.cornell.edu/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0403/0403026.pdf
http://xxx.uni-augsburg.de/abs/physics/0403026
http://xxx.uni-augsburg.de/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0403/0403026.pdf
http://babbage.sissa.it/abs/physics/0403026
http://babbage.sissa.it/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0403/0403026.pdf