A phantom loop is a suitably arranged electrical network that includes within the number of conductive paths part of the natural environment (which can be at the same time acting as a conductor of another circuit) to complete a circuit. It is a form of open system. Phantom loops can occur in suspended circuits, in which the conductor has no ground and uses the ionosphere to complete the circuit at both ends. Phantom loops can also occur in grounded circuits, in which the conductor has a ground and uses the lower atmosphere to complete the circuit and both ends (with the waves traversing the magnetic poles of the Earth).
Phantomloop.org is a user-generated news aggregator that builds a time-sensitive community. Interlacing Geographic Information System technology with news media to create both the local and global accrual of user paths and sessions. One’s presence on the site creates another point to be available to all users and forms the content and body of the website itself.
A static version, oriented to the start point of Pasadena, California can be seen