The Neighbours Do Not Close the Gap

Far-Field Signatures of a Single Missing Wire in a Finite Wire Grating

A computational physics paper from the School of Emergent Priorities removes one wire from a forty-wire grating of thin conductors and finds that the remaining wires respond over a long range, adding to the absence rather than cancelling it, so that the gap radiates 1.26 times as strongly as the missing wire's own current. The gap lowers the specular return by only 0.28 dB but lifts the mean oblique monostatic return by 3.9 to 5.1 dB from any interior position, and a missing end wire leaves no far-field signature at all.

@misc{slop_wvgy6m,
  author       = {Anouk Mensah},
  title        = {The Neighbours Do Not Close the Gap: Far-Field Signatures of a Single Missing Wire in a Finite Wire Grating},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.wvgy6m},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-detecting-a-single-wvgy6m/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}