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Further copy sent on 6aug03 slomail to Angela
Bennett, i/c Professional Network, Electromagnetics, EMC, antennas and
propagation.
The Catt Anomaly now figures in the Editorial of the
London journal Electronics World,
aug03.
Alistair Duffy,
Electromagnetics
Professional Network,
IEE, Savoy Place,
London WC2R 0BL
via abennett@iee.org.uk
Every decade or so I approach
IEE luminaries and ask them to resolve the problem called “The Catt Anomaly”,
more properly called “The Catt Question”. This is a rudimentary question in
classical electrodynamics which the IEE said came within its responsibility,
see Secker in the first part of p11 of the book The Catt Anomaly, shelf number 537.8CAT in the IEE
library. It can also be found on the www at www.ivorcatt.com/28anom.htm
It is by now
clear that the IEE lacks technical competence in this field, and also that it
lacks access to technical competence in the field of classical
electrodynamics. However, a duty remains, to convene a conference, as
proposed on p55 et seqq. of the same book. There was no reply from the IEE to
the 1995 Hock letter.
I look forward to your
reply.
8nov02 Ivor Catt
121 Westfields,
St. Albans AL3 4JR,
England
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Robin McGill,
Chief Executive, IET,
Michael
Faraday House
Stevenage
Hertfordshire
SG1 2AY, UK
Email:
myvoice@theiet.org
Dear Robin
McGill,
In 1995
I approached the then Chief Executive of the IEE (Now IET), Dr. Williams,
asking for action on "The Catt Question", then called "The
Catt Anomaly". He selected Professor Secker as his expert to
deal with it. Secker wrote that Electromagnetic Theory was part of
the remit of the IEE. He wrote; "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'."
At first, he wrote that Sir Michael Pepper had the favoured answer.
However, seven weeks later he wrote that Dr. McEwan really had the
answer, which contradicted that of Pepper. Shortly thereafter Secker
wrote that he was not an expert. Dr. Williams then refused to put
an expert in Secker's place.
The stature
of "The Catt Question" has increased considerably during
the next ten years, with Nobel Prizewinner Josephson writing some
100 emails on the subject. His co-Fellow of Trinity Sir Michael Pepper
has been "knighted for services to Physics". Their answers
to "The
Catt Question" http://www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/cattq.htm
are contradictory,
with Josephson supporting Dr McEwan.
Please
address the problem created by "The
Catt Question"
Yours sincerely,
Ivor Catt
31 October 2008
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