Detection of electromagnetic fields
View Patent ↗Method and apparatus for detecting or analyzing chemical reactions, such as an enzyme reaction, and other events in which electron translation is accompanied by photon emission utilizing a magnetometer probe to detect a change in electromagnetic field strength as a characterization of the event or of a substance. The event may be of unknown cause and a recorded time course of the change in electromagnetic field strength may be compared with known time course of known events to determine the cause of the unknown cause event. Similarly, a chemical substance may be detected and its identity determined.
1. A method of detecting a chemical substance, which comprises:
using magnetometer means to generate an electrical signal of strength proportional to near or propagating electromagnetic fields originating in the substance, and
recording a time course of the changes in electromagnetic field strength as an identification of the substance.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the substance is concealed.
3. The method of claim 2 wherein the substance is in its ground state.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the substance is an explosive, radioactive isotope or chemically-active organic matter.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the substance is remotely located from the location of detection.