https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0l1diFGxIg

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/2812.htm cattq and Pepper.

Email from Forrest Bishop to Ivor Catt. This is the only evidence of comment on cattq by Pepper since his disastrous howler 27 years ago in http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/2812.htm , Pepper defied Gauss’s Law when he invented the “southerner” “answer” to cattq. He was later supported by, among others “southerners”, Lago and Morgenthaler. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x6761.htm

Dear Ivor Catt,

You have asked me to dig this up several times. I referred to it as "Word Salad", which you said was the first time you had heard that term.

Here is the text of Michael Pepper's Dec, 2005 email to Brian Josephson, in regards to The Catt Question, who forwarded it to Forrest Bishop-

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Not knowing that he has had many years correspondence with others on this

I thought that if I answered a simple question then as he has been a

circuit designer and worked with MOS devices so he should be able to

realise what happens but not to be. If one has a capacitor say metal

-oxide- metal then the field produces a polarisation of charge at a

surface and the mobile element (electrons) flow around. This is what

happens in an MOS device, hence I thought that if I presented this

analogy of the electric field terminating at the surface of the metal

then that would answer him. The charge is separated by the electric field

and then flows to the battery as in your comment and the speed with which

if flows is given by the relaxation process as in your hose pipe analogy.

I also added the high frequency limit when response cannot occur and the

metal is transparent in the ultra-violet.

I think we may be coming up with the same answer from the two ends ?

- Email from (soon-to-be Sir) Michel Pepper, Knighted for services to Physics, to Josephson.

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25.8.2020

Re: philosophy

Ivor Catt <ivorcatt@gmail.com>

17:27 (2 hours ago)

to HARRY, John, David, bcc: Malcolm, bcc: Forrest, bcc: Steve, bcc: Monika, bcc: Alex, bcc: Dana, bcc: Anthony, bcc: michael.pepper, bcc: Anthony, bcc: Archie, bcc: Jack, bcc: Brian

Harry,

This is very wrong. John Dore has pointed out in horror that these people are "distinguished", and should be so treated.

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/ieeetonycard.pdf ; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x8cktony.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Josephson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Howie

They did not go so far in the distinction stakes to be called "silly". It was silly of you to call distinguished people silly. John can call Ivor "silly", but then Ivor is not "distinguished". There is a clear division between "distinguished" and "silly".

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/howie.pdf

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x48r.htm

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/nutter.htm

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x8cbwash.htm

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/howie.htm

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/howie93.htm

Try to get back in line, or Josephson will turn the shrinks on you, not on me.

Ivor

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Pepper's 2005 word salad reply to The Catt Question, 2 weeks before being knighted

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Forrest Bishop <forrestb@ix.netcom.com>

25 Aug 2020, 18:26

to Brian, me, HARRY, Ed, Alex, Tony, A, Malcolm, Anthony, David, Steve, John, Forrest, mike, michael.pepper@ucl.ac.uk, Phil, John, David, Greg, ekkehard@ekkehard-friebe.de, Giuseppe, Jack, philip, massimiliano.pieraccini@unifi.it, Monika, Dana, Ben

Dear Ivor Catt,

You have asked me to dig this up several times. I referred to it as "Word Salad", which you said was the first time you had heard that term.

Here is the text of Michael Pepper's Dec, 2005 email to Brian Josephson, in regards to The Catt Question, whom forwarded it to Forrest Bishop-

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Not knowing that he has had many years correspondence with others on this
I thought that if I answered a simple question then as he has been a
circuit designer and worked with MOS devices so he should be able to
realise what happens but not to be. If one has a capacitor say metal
-oxide- metal then the field produces a polarisation of charge at a
surface and the mobile element (electrons) flow around. This is what
happens in an MOS device, hence I thought that if I presented this
analogy of the electric field terminating at the surface of the metal
then that would answer him. The charge is separated by the electric field
and then flows to the battery as in your comment and the speed with which
if flows is given by the relaxation process as in your hose pipe analogy.
I also added the high frequency limit when response cannot occur and the
metal is transparent in the ultra-violet.

I think we may be coming up with the same answer from the two ends ?

- (soon-to-be Sir) Michel Pepper

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--On Tuesday, December 20, 2005 9:03 -0800 Forrest Bishop <forrestb@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

Brian Josephson wrote:

Thanks. The 'dogged by Catt' one was just cc'd to you (I can't remember

exactly why at this point but there seemed to be some reason for this),

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Pepper was knighted by Her Majesty the Queen of England for "service to science" or some such, two weeks after sending this response to The Catt Question.

The above is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and recollection.

Forrest Bishop

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https://www.spaceandmotion.com/physics-censorship-nobel-prize-laureate.htm