| Ivor Catt, 121 Westfields,St. Albans
AL3 4JR
England tel 01727 864257
7feb95 second copy sent 26june95. This copy printed 26/06/95
27 July 2009. No reply received.
Ching-Wen Hsue,
AT&T Bell Laboratories, P.O. Box 900,
Princeton, N.J. 08540, USA
Dear Mr. Hsue,
"The contrapuntal model for the charged capacitor
re your;
A static dc voltage can be treated as two traveling
waves propagating in opposite directions of a lossless, nonuniform
transmission line."
I would point out two things;
1. You echo Copernicus' restrained use of the earth moving as an
instrument, not as a fact to be believed. Further, Copernicus delayed
publishing even this restrained suggestion until after his death.
Galileo was subjected to house arrest because he insisted on saying,
not only that a moving earth was a useful conceptual instrument
for calculation, but that he believed that the earth moved. [However,
to go deeper, read G de Santillana, "The Crime of Galileo",
Univ. of Chicago Press, 1955.] You probably do not know that the
so-called de voltage is two contrapuntal waves (not merely “can
be treated as two travelling waves”) so, like Copernicus, you do
not risk excommunication. [That is, the notion of a steady state
charged capacitor with electric charge loafing on the under-side
of each plate is a myth.] Once the energy has been delivered at
the speed of light, which is the only speed at which it can be delivered1,
there is no mechanism for it to slow down.
2. You are wrong to limit the case to the lossless line, see last
col. of p46 of my sep84 article in Electronics and Wireless World.
Losses cannot slow this stuff down, because of the way losses cancel
out or otherwise remove themselves from the matter. The stationary
model is completely untenable because unapproachable. Energy current
cannot slow down. We have to be burned at the stake.
Mike Gibson and I develop these ideas further in Proc. IEEE june83
and june87. Try to work out the much simpler solution for the june87
case. Or beg me for it. Too simple to publish, it would be dismissed
as banal. Only the tortuous approach is publishable!
My most recent book, Electromagnetism I, pub. Westfields Press,
England, nov94, p5, (obtainable from me), argues that once the contrapuntal
model for the charged capacitor is propounded, Ockham's Razor tells
us that we have to discard the traditional, stationary model for
the charged capacitor.
Yours sincerely, Ivor Catt
cc Mike Gibson, 8514 134th Ct NE Redmond, Wi\ 98052
USA
Whereas Copcrnicus retreated from asserting that the
earth moved, and used the idea mercly as a conjecture, or instrument,
for calculation of the heavenly bodies, Galileo was subjected lo
house arrest because he asserted that he believed that
the earth moved; that it was true that the earth moved.
(This is the superficial Galileo story, not that of Santillana.)
The parallel with the question of whether there is movement in a
charged capacitor is closer than I thought when I wrotc my letter
to the Ching-Wen Hsue, see endosed. Ching-Wen Hsue, like Copcrnicus,
is in the end publishable because he proposes movement in a charged
capacitor only as an instrument for the calculation of
the movement of electrical energy elsewhere. Catt has been totally
totally ignored for 20 yearss, and kept out of all learned journals,
because he asserted such movement as the true theory. We
live in medaeval times. - Ivor Catl, 14feb95
This copy printed 26/06/95 cc Lenore Simon, I.E.E., Savoy Place,
Central London
Lenore, I understand that the President of the lEE, whom I approached,
made no effort to get my lalcst (nov94) book reviewed by an lEE
journal, so Ivor Catt's theories still continue to not exist among
learned circles. Note the graduaI infiltration of the Call, or Contmpuntal,
model for a l:harged l:apal:ilor (see Wireless World Ucl: 1980)
as a wnjedure, or instnunenl, into the more presligious New York
IEEE journal. Perhaps the London lEE will feel il safe lo follow
behind afier a suitable delay of 5 or 10 years, but only under the
name of a foreignl"T, I suppose, to minirnise the politieal
implications!
l:C The President, lEE,
Savoy Place, Stnmd, Centml London.
1
1t is not possible for energy current to travel down a transmission
slower than the speed of light, l/-YOHo). You can reach this conclusion
by playing with Maxwell's equations, see Appendix I of my 1967 IEEE
paper; IEEE Trdns. Elect. Compo vol EC-16 no. 6, dec 1967, p 761.
3[added 24june95] This is an error. The suppression runs to 35 years.
See Electronics and Wireless World, May95, 435. The biggest name
in the world in e-m theory (Catt) cannot be published on e-m in
any learned journal.
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