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18 July 2009 Comment on my letter, published in "Electronics World", May 2009. This is one paragraph from that letter; "There is a general idea, stated to me by Professor Howie, then Head of the Cavendish, that "Physical reality is composed of sine waves." The entrenched idea that classical electromagnetic theory refers only to sine waves is very important, since it submerges "The Catt Question" in complexity and confusion. The truth is that "The Catt Question" exposes a fundamental problem for classical electromagnetism which has been hidden by the general commitment to sine waves. It is very simple, and discusses a single voltage step travelling at the speed of light guided by two conductors. Unfortunately, experts in electromagnetic theory cannot "see" a single step, but in their brains they convert it into an array of sine waves. This makes it too difficult for them to grasp the fundamental, simple problem, "The Catt Question"." Since May, it has occurred to me that there is another factor which is deeply debilitating when a luminary - academic or text book writer - tries to grasp "The Catt Anomaly". This is "wave-particle duality". In order to grasp "The Catt Question", it is important for ones mind to not be cluttered by the notion of particles. This is easy for me, because decades ago I excluded the particle from my world-view. I am not alone. "We all of us have some idea of what the basic axioms in physics will turn out to be. The quantum or particle will surely not be amongst them; the field, in Faraday's and Maxwell's sense, could possibly be, but it is not certain." - Einstein in "The Born-Einstain Letters" by Max Born, pub. Macmillan 1971. p164. Here, Einstein showed prescience. Whereas he had the electric field and the magnetic field, under my aegis they morphed into a single permissible field, the ExH electromagnetic field, or TEM Wave. When considering "The Catt Question", if photons and suchlike are cluttering a luminary's brain, he must find the very simple case, of a TEM Step, extremely difficult to grasp. In my article "The Heaviside Signal" , I quote Einstein promoting "The Rolling Wave", where E causes H causes E. That also hopelessly confuses "The Catt Question". The simple, clear representation that makes "The Catt Question" easy to comprehend is what I have called "The Heaviside Signal", where E and H coexist, and do not cause each other. With this view, the TEM Wace is monolithic, what Heaviside called "a slab of energy current", and moves forward unchanged at the speed of light. The problem that was no one noticed for a century was that this meant electric charge had to move at the speed of light - the fatal flaw posed by "The Catt Question".
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