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Addendum to by Ivor Catt |
The Catt Question – EW Challenge |
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12july04 Electromagnetism – State of Play
It
is difficult for readers of Electronics World to believe what is happening.
It is so unusual that most cursory readers will impose a more conventional
model onto the saga of The Catt Question. These false models include; Catt is employing new tricks to publicise a Theory
of his. For some reason, Catt is pursuing a vendeta
against certain Professors, perhaps because they did not employ or promote
him. Perhaps they did not respect his work. The
true reason for the present campaign is unprecedented. A century ago,
a world-wide decision was made to freeze the accepted Theory of Electromgnetism.
This decision is clearly stated in numerous articles and text books.
In the 1950s, at the start of digital electronics, Catt came on the
scene. Digital electronics should have caused theory to morph back
from analogue, where it had been for half a century, to digital, its
previous form. Theory had been digital in the nineteenth century because
the telegraph, using Morse pulses, had been the main application for
electronics. Oliver
Heaviside was the leading theoretician in the telegraph age. He developed
“The Telegraph Equation“, and presented the concept of “Energy Current“ in
his books. Later, in the twentieth century, the telegraph equation was
retained, but Oliver Heaviside disappeared from the record, along with his
concept of Energy Current. In
the 1950s Catt spent twelve years researching the problem of how to
interconnect the new high speed (1 nsec) logic gates. He discovered that the
suppressed Heaviside had been there before him with a theory which is now
called “Theory H“. “Theory H“ includes the idea that, in contrast to the
normal theory, “Theory N“, the electromagnetic field (i.e. TEM wave)
travelling from one logic gate to the next causes the electric current in the
signal wire, rather than the reverse. Oliver Heaviside said “We reverse
this,“ using the regal “We“. However; “A world-wide decision was made a century ago to
freeze the accepted Theory of Electromgnetism. This decision is clearly
stated in numerous articles and text books.“ (See above.) The resulting theory, which reigned for a century,
excluded all of Heaviside’s insights. Thus, past insights have been erazed
from the record. However, Catt’s preoccupation is not with insights
suppressed from Heaviside’s work, but rather with the total censorship of
work done after the transition from analog back to digital in around 1950 and
beyond. The major surge forward came when the delay through a logic gate fell
below the delay for a signal traversing a digital computer system. This was
achieved at Motorola in around 1960 with 1nsec ECL logic gates. Although a
small amount was actually published, for instance in Wireless World in
December 1980, this work has mostly been censored. It is partly a throwback
to Heaviside’s work, and partly new. All, published and unpublished, has been
totally ignored. After spending decades establishing that advances
beyond 1910 were illegal, Catt moved on to asking for clarification of the
theory which had reigned for a century, called “Theory N“. There was total
refusal to outline key portions of that theory, and tortuous techniques
lasting over years had to be employed to breach this worldwide silence. It
took years to manoeuver MacEwan and Pepper FRS into commenting on “The Catt
Question“, a key aspect of the theory that they earned salary for treaching.
They totally contradicted each other, and then went silent. That is the state
of play today. No one will define a theory which has held the field for a
century, suppressing all alternative views. After
a few decades of impasse, Catt offered a large prize to any student who
prevailed on his accredited lecturer or text book writer to respond to this
Question, with no takers. In Electronics World, August 2004, this offer has
now been increased, decisions making being handed over to the Editor, see www.ivorcatt.com/44.htm |
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