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Re: catt anomaly

Posted by Catt on June 22, 2001 at 13:18:58:
When a TEM step travels at the speed of light down a vacuum guided by two conductors, electric charge appears on the bottom conductor to terminate the electric field which appears between top and bottom conductors. Where does that charge come from?
Pepper FRS says it cannot come from the west, because it would have to travel at the speed of light.
McEwan, Reader in Electromagnetism, says is comes from the west, and does not need to travel at the speed of light.
Catt is not involved, except that he wants to learn from these learned luminaries, who continue to accept salary for "teaching" the subject. As one of the people in this www discussion group has said, the theory was all sorted out by 1920, and has not changed since. Thus, he and these professionals have had eighty years in which to sort out all the dogma. However, the question of where the electric charge which appears on the bottom conductor comes from, is not a detail. I cannot think of anything which is much more central to the theory. Lacking information on this, we do not have a theory. For eighty years we have had blarney and bluster, including some in your www discussion group.
Heaviside is not to blame, because when he was active, it was not clear that electrticity had mass; quite the reverse. He was already busy with his engrossing war with his cousin Miss Way before the electron developed mass.
(By the way, my co-author Dr Lynch, aged 84, tells me that J J Thomson told him (Lynch) about his discovery of the electron. That is why he gave the IEE Centenary Speech.)
Pepper and his boss Howie each got their FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society) for prowess in this very area (and not of course for mutual backscratching and behind-licking!). Howie says the charge comes from the west, and Pepper says it cannot come from the west, but comes from the south (thus defying Gauss's Law, which Pepper seems indifferent to). They refuse to discuss their difference. Anyway, I'm wasting my time. If Howie FRS, Pepper FRS, McEwan, Reader in e-m, (and now Nobel Prizewinner Andrew Huxley, see my website) are ignorant of e-m theory, and just write irrelevant drivel, why should I expect anything but bluster from the guys in this email discussion group?
http://www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/catanoi.htm
http://www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/w99anbk2.htm
However, perhaps some of you can distinguish between a Theory and a Question. The Catt Anomaly is a Question. What we want is for all the ignorant FRS's, Nobel Prizewinners and so on to sing with one voice. They have to talk to each other, not just give each other prizes. Either they should all become Westerners, or they should all become Southerners. They don't have to have a clue about e-m theory. All they have to do is to agree the party line, and then continue to draw salary without frightening the horses (= young students).
Ivor Catt. 22june01