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http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x6761.htm http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x5a31.htm Michael
Pepper: H-index & Awards - Academic Profile | Research.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0l1diFGxIg
. Pepper grooms the next two generations. https://tv.theiet.org/?videoid=6255 “I hope will all come to agree on “The Catt Question.” - Spargo http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/jo1.htm http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/368/1924/3487 Animation; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/cattq.htm After the 1993 letter, Pepper went incommunicado for
25 years (still counting), even after Nobel Prize Winner Josephson told me
Pepper had changed his mind to west over cattq. Sir
Michael Pepper betrays his knighthood nanotech http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x85rpepper.htm
“I came into engineering
because I had spent so much effort on the basic physics …. “ –Pepper. How
much time on cattq in 25 years? http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/cattq.htm https://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=31917 Portrait
of a Drivelmaster… A one-electron man. Can’t handle a whole row of
them. Analysis 2011 Beware of the Bull Praise of
Academics The New Scholasticism Throwing
glasses at stone houses Sir Michael Pepper was knighted "for services to physics" and edits the leading journal for The Royal Society Charles Coultas ; Analysis Sir Michael Pepper has been incommunicado since 1993. Win a five hundred pound prize The Pepper Trail UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Ivor
Catt, Esq., Dear Mr Catt, As a Trinity physicist the Master suggested that I might provide some comments on the questions raised in your recent letter to him on aspects of electromagnetic theory. If I understand the position correctly, your question concerns the source of the charge at a metal surface which by responding to the presence of the EM wave ensures that the reflectivity of the metal surface is virtually unity, hence providing waveguide action and related applications. If I may restate the basis of your question, what is the maximum frequency of radiation which is reflected? It is this parameter rather than light velocity which is important. The solution lies in the maximum frequency response of the electron gas, which is the plasmon frequency w p and is calculated in a straightforward way. If light frequency is greater than w p then the electron gas in the metal can no longer respond and the reflectivity tends to zero. The problem you are posing is that if the wave is guided by the metal then this implies that the charge resides on the metal surface. As the wave travels at light velocity, then charge supplied from outside the system would have to travel at light velocity as well, which is clearly impossible. The answer is found by considering the nature of conduction in metals. Here we have a lattice of positively charged atoms surrounded by a sea of free electrons which can move in response to an electric field. This response can be very rapid and results in a polarisation of charge at the surface and through the metal. At frequencies greater than w p the electron gas cannot respond which is the reason for the transparency of metals to ultra-violet radiation. However for frequencies used in communications the electron gas can easily respond to the radiation and reflectivity is unity. If a poor conductor is used instead of a metal, i.e. there are no freely conducting electrons, then there is no polarisation, and as you point out charge cannot enter the system, and there can be no surface field. Consequently reflection of the radiation will not occur at these low frequencies and there is no waveguide action. I hope that these comments provide a satisfactory explanation. Yours sincerely, [signed]
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August 23, 1993 Dear Raeto
West, I write with reference to your letter of August 19. Your description of
the process is correct; as a TEM wave advances so charge within the conductor
is polarised and the disturbance propagates at right angles to the
direction of propagation of the wave .... .... Yours sincerely, M Pepper |
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Portrait of a Drivelmaster… A one-electron man. Can’t handle a whole row of them. Throwing
glasses at stone houses Google search for “Pepper FRS” “The point about the Catt Anomaly has,
says Ivor, nothing to do with his theory. It is an anomaly between rival
textbooks and professors [Pepper and McEwan]. They will answer his polite
query in their condescending authoritative manner until they are told that
their ‘explanation’ is the exact opposite of that taken by other authors and professors .
Then they cannot be induced to communicate with one another to resolve the
problem.” – Editorial, Electronics World,
August 2003, p3. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Dear Mr Catt Thank you for your letter of 18 August, to which the Secretary, Dr Williams, has asked me to respond. Firstly, I should mention that we have had your book reviewed and that the resulting report will be published in the Electronics and Communication Engineering Journal - either in the October or December issue. [Actually oct95.] The Institution has a responsibility to 'promote the general advancement of electrical science and engineering and their applications and to facilitate the exchange of information and ideas on these subjects to the members of the Institution'. The general view of the experts within the IEE is that the so-called 'Catt anomaly' is not an anomaly at all, and does not, therefore, require discussion or exposition. The favoured explanation aligns with the statement to which you refer, attributed to Professor Pepper, namely that as a TEM wave advances, so charge separation occurs close to the conductor surface effectively giving a transitory current flow at right angles to the direction of wave propagation. Yours sincerely [signed] Professor Philip E Secker Deputy Secretary IEE 4sep95 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ .... The flaw here is the assumption that the charges move with the wave. whereas in reality they simply come to the surface as the wave passes, and when it has gone they recede into the conductor. No individual charge moves with the velocity of the wave. The charges come to the surface to help the wave go by and then pass the task to other charges further along the line which are already there and waiting. This is the mechanism of guidance and containement. There is no anomaly. .... .... There are many other items in this book which give cause for concern, for example the false statement that 'The TEM wave has virtually disappeared from today's electromagnetic theory'. Catt's belief in his own work is clearly sincere, but this reviewer, after lengthy and careful consideration, can find virtually nothing of value in this book. B. LAGO @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ I don’t understand why Forrest did not
make it clear to until today 27 February 2012, that Pepper did write
something (but not to me) after 1993. This contradicts Brian Josephson saying
by email around 2004 that Pepper now agrees with him, and has become a
westerner. – Ivor Catt From: Forrest
Bishop Sent:
Sunday, February 26, 2012 9:48 PM To: Ivor Catt
; HARRY RICKER ;
Toptorsion@aol.com
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Cc: forrestb@ix.netcom.com
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Subject: Re:
nutter Ivor, Brian, @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Since 1993 Sir Michael Pepper has not
emitted a single squeak about “The Catt Question”. During that time, he was
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FRS, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College
London, UK, has been awarded the Faraday Medal for pioneering the basic and
applied physics of advanced semiconductor structures. Building on his use of
devices for investigating electron transport in disordered systems, he
pioneered the physics of semiconductor nanostructures introducing techniques
now used worldwide in proposed quantum information systems. Since 1993 Sir
Michael Pepper has not emitted a single squeak about “The Catt Question”.
During that time, he was knighted “for services to Physics”. http://www.iop.org/about/awards/hon_fellowship/hon_fellows/page_56413.html @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ The Pepper legpull Added 14.8.2019 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2010.0131 Visions of the future
for the Royal Society’s 350th anniversary year Published:13 August 2010https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0131 “…. the quantum version of an
analogue computer can offer certain advantages in terms of speed and capacity
compared with the more generally studied digital version. ….
“ Now pull the other leg; “ …. understanding is limited by the
performance of conventional computers and so awaits the advent of quantum
computation. …. “ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0l1diFGxIg Prof. Michael Arthur, Provost, UCL, at some £400,000pa, just about
the highest paid University head, can understand a brand, “nanotechnology”,
which will bring in a lot of taxpayers’ money. He need not know or understand
the details. Better not. https://tv.theiet.org/? Why not say “My work or …..” has been recognised, rather than myself? This applies to Pepper and Spargo |