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Faraday discovered that if there was a changing
magnetic field in a region, there resulted a voltage across a small
gap when an electrical conductor was placed round the periphery
of the region. This led to the explosion of the later stages of
the industrial revolution, which were based on his discovery. The industrial revolution prompted the need for a literate, educated Proletariat, so the industrial revolution carried in its train the imposition of universal education and the growth of an elite of Knowledge Brokers. . Who controlled the knowledge on which their income and reputation rested was crucial. For thousands of years, the platonists imposed the pure form onto physical reality - the circle. Today, neo-platonists impose a derivation of the pure circle, the sine wave, onto physical reality. At least they try to. One feature is that they have to move to exclude all the intellectual and experiental trappings arising from the Morse pulse, so Heaviside was suppressed. Later, the non-pure form arose with a greater vengeance when the digital computer triumphed over the analog computer. All of the insights gained from fifty years of engineering the digital computer are excluded from all college and university courses throughout the world. None of the content of my 1979 book Digital Hardware Design published by Macmillan is allowed into any college syllabus in the world. (The same goes for my book Electromagnetism 1 .) The weakness in the above argument arises when we consider the technical competence of today's neo-platonists. Analysis of their complex mathematics in its own terms finds gross errors which have been glossed over for a century. See for instance their mathematicisation of Faraday's Law , or the ludicrous situation at the heart of Maxwell's Equations . This indicates that the present obstruction of scientific advance is not so much in order to save, or promote, a mathematical approach to science, but rather the conservative desire to preserve old theory and old mathematics in spite of modern insights. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@ "4) The litinany of egregious errors and math abuse, already
covered. Example: "I don't think they can even manipulate their
mathematics, except in ever-repeated, sanctified sequences. Some
of these sequences I have shown to be faulty, for instance page
59 on EM1, Ivor Catt, ; --Forrest Bishop, July 2007" links
with my comment; "None of these guys will ever comment on p59.
They will happily repeat its faulty content, because all their predecessors
have done the same. They have never thought it through, and never
will, They do not see it as their duty to think through the significance
and validity of oft repeated (pseudo)mathematical sequences. They
think their job is merely to add more. -- Ivor Catt, July 20, 2007" @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 28 July 2007 There have been recent atempts to claim that, in the context of discussion of the origin of Displacement Current and associated matters, it has always been realised that then electric charge/current enters a capacitor plate from the input wire, it first has to spread out across the plate of the capacitor. The truth is that this was not realised by Maxwell or Heaviside, or by anyone else. It was first realised in perhaps 1970 by myself, Ivor Catt. In order to establish priority, I slipped it into the IEEE Trans. Comp. in 1970. There will be no published mention of the problem anywhere before that date. Since that date, nobody has dared attempt to absorb the insight into the Canon of Classical Electromagnetism. This means it plays a role similar to the embarrassing insight; "A Capacitor is a Transmission Line." Already in 1970 I knew very well that censorship would prevent publication of this important realisation. For this reason, I pretended that I needed to make a correction to my IEEE 1967 paper. I guessed, correctly, that an alleged "correction" would bypass the journal referees, and so bypass the censorship stage. [Note that already, my 1966 IEEE Trans. Comp. article was submitted under a misleading title in order to evade censorship, successfully. No one else succeeded in publishing on this taboo subject, "The Glitch" for many years thereafter.] I have to hand the galleys of my "correction", which says "Manuscript received June 14, 1976". It was published shortly thereafter. It goes as follows; "Maxwell's Displacement Current. IVOR CATT I have only recently fully realised that the theoretical model given in my 1967 paper [1] for voltage decoupling at a point between parallel voltage planes (as used in high-speed digitasl logic) cn an and should be applied directly to any capacitor, and opbviates the need to postulate that mysterious fudge factor of Maxwell's, the "displacement current." The model is of a transmission line whose characteristic impedance decreases linearly with distaqnce out from the point like the ripples from a pebble dropped in a pond. The further, more startling implications of this model will be supplied by the author on request. Manuscript received June 14, 1976. The author is at Crouch Hall, .... ...., England. [1] I. Catt, "crosstalk (noise) in digital computers," IEEE Trans. Electron. Comput., vol. EC-16, pp. 743-763, Dec. 1967 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Electronic
Analog Computers However, the difference between these systems is what makes analog computing useful. If one considers a simple mass-spring system, constructing the physical system would require buying the springs and masses. This would be proceeded by attaching them to each other and an appropriate anchor, collecting test equipment with the appropriate input range, and finally, taking (somewhat difficult) measurements. The electrical equivalent can be constructed with a few operational amplifiers (Op amps) and some passive linear components; all measurements can be taken directly with an oscilloscope. In the circuit, the (simulated) 'mass of the spring' can be changed by adjusting a potentiometer. The electrical system is an analogy to the physical system, hence the name, but it is less expensive to construct, safer, and easier to modify. Also, an electronic circuit can typically operate at higher frequencies than the system being simulated. This allows the simulation to run faster than real time, for quicker results. Comment by Ivor, 29 July 2007. Analog and digital computers were running neck and neck in competition in 1962. AAt an exhibition in Birmingham in 1962, I stood in front of our Sirius Digital Computer, the first transistorised computer. The exhibit next to us was the latest Analog Computer. Both types were on sale for £25,000, at a time when my annual salary was less than £1,000. However, Analog died for two reasons. First, accuracy was limited to that of its components, L, R and C, at only 1%. Secondly, Ken Johnson pointed out that the analog computer could easily be simulated on a digital computer. The victory of the digital copmputer was a disaster for the neo-platonists, because by its very nature, the analog computer heavily promoted the sine wave. The central element in an analog computer was sinusoidal - an operational (very high gain) amplifier surrounded by R, C (and L) components. However, the Neo-Platonists got back in via software.. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Sir Francis Bacon (later Lord Verulam and the Viscount St. Albans) was an English lawyer, statesman, essayist, historian, intellectual reformer, philosopher, and champion of modern science. Early in his career he claimed “all knowledge as his province” and afterwards dedicated himself to a wholesale revaluation and re-structuring of traditional learning. To take the place of the established tradition (a miscellany of Scholasticism, humanism, and natural magic), he proposed an entirely new system based on empirical and inductive principles and the active development of new arts and inventions, a system whose ultimate goal would be the production of practical knowledge for “the use and benefit of men” and the relief of the human condition. At the same time that he was founding and promoting this new project
for the advancement of learning, Bacon was also moving up the ladder
of state service. His career aspirations had been largely disappointed
under Elizabeth I, but with the ascension of James his political
fortunes rose. Knighted in 1603, he was then steadily promoted to
a series of offices, including Solicitor General (1607), Attorney
General (1613), and eventually Lord Chancellor (1618). While serving
as Chancellor, he was indicted on charges of bribery and forced
to leave public office. He then retired to his estate where he devoted
himself full time to his continuing literary, scientific, and philosophical
work. He died in 1626, leaving behind a cultural legacy that, for
better or worse, includes most of the foundation for the triumph
of technology and for the modern world as we currently know it.
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