Thend

Look at the switch in http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/thend.pdf http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/thend.htm

The switch has just closed, so an ExH TEM signal advances at the speed of light (for the medium) towards the long one turn transformer. Some of it has entered the transformer, but at that instant the galvanometer on the right measures zero, so falsifying the equation v=-d(phi)/dt, and with it falsifying the whole of classical (text book) electromagnetic theory, which says that the galvanometer will measure a voltage proportional to the rate of entry (or change) of electric field into the secondary of the transformer. That is, classical electromagnetic theory would truthfully describe a universe where there was instantaneous action at a distance, not Minkowski’s/Einstein’s universe; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_space

Why did I not see this until after 60 years working on electromagnetic theory? Because of the late Graham Catt’s observation; “The aim of education is to classify people.” http://ivorcatt.co.uk/parrot.htm . Society needs to preserve a pyramidal structure, and so devises more and more parrot tests so that first of all many drop out of the final structure and fill the lower roles in society, while ever less “students” succeed in feeding back (in examinations) more and more complicated parroted “information”. Like DHJPPE, I had been painstakingly brainwashed

DHJPPT have proved they are excellent parrots, and could not possibly see through the ever more complex fundamentals, (particularly mathematical,) of what they had been trained to parrot towards the end of their academic career, with their PhD “research”, which they achieved by successfully embroidering previous “knowledge”. For instance. they might discover a new particle, such as a “down quark”, but they must not discover that an existing (and PhD’d) particle, e.g. the electron, did not exist. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/cattq.htm . The latter would destroy their text books and lecture notes, but the former would merely add a chapter.

It took me “only” 60 tears to realise that classical electromagnetic theory could be falsified much more easily than in my (according to Howie, ex head of the Cavendish) “outrageous” articles http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x18j73.pdf ; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x18j184.pdf / ; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x18j190.pdf ; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x18j197.pdf

The reason why I broke out of the parrot corral and they could not was not, as has been suggested, because I am a genius, but that my “education” had been sufficiently disrupted by going to so many schools in so many countries, and worse, having a gap when I did national service, and in the death of my Cambridge tutor in electricity, who was not replaced fast enough. Electricity was hardly mentioned in my university course in what was called “Mechanical Science”.

Ivor Catt 29.03.2024