National Security Secrets
#66. Static electric fields are everywhere.
They can occur wherever a conductive material and an insulating material are in contact. Your own home contains several at the moment if you subscribe to a cable service.
How did this happen without you being informed?
Well, when a signal (in the form of radio frequency current) current travels down a coaxial cable, it either reaches a router, DVR, etc. or it reaches the terminating end of the cable.
This is normally the story of how an antenna works. And it would be again if the coaxial cable protruded from the wall - which it does not. It stays just put of sight within an insulating terminator of an outlet.
Because the cable is conductive and the terminating thing-a-ma-jig isn't, a static electric field forms. Once that happens, the cable has the equivalent of a reflective end cap and the signal gets reflected back up the cable.
Otherwise our homes would be flooded with radio frequency current which would feel... weird.
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