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Discussion in
March 2010
It
is now thirty years since the "Position
Statement" (below) was written. Note that our key paper "Displacement
Current" had been rejected throughout the world. A year later it
was published in Wireless World, but ignored for the next thirty years,
for instance recently by Professor
Lewin . I told May Chiao of “Nature Physics”, an offshoot of
“Nature”, that if she published an article which said that a capacitor
was a transmission line, that would be the end
of her editorial career; certainly if the article mentioned Displacement
Current. When I asked her whether electromagnetic theory was part of the
remit of “Nature Physics”, she said “Yes.” However, she never replied to
my letters and emails. I received one email only from her boss, when she
briefly said that they could not enter into any correspondence.
The
seminars continued regularly
for ten years. Companies sent their staff to them. Some engineers
attended twice, and one did three times. Every attender gave a positive
report except one. They totalled perhaps 200.
The
seminars were profitable, and the profit was used to publish books with
our theories, which were also given to those who attended the seminars. I
turned into a “publishing house”, and we were surprised to find that
there was no obstruction when we used this technique to get our theories
into books into the British Library, where they would be available to
researchers for ever into the future. Also, the books were profitable,
although nearly all out of print.
The
next development was the www. Having experienced so much censorship, I
played safe by having websites in more than one country. Most of the
books are now on the www. See "Electromagnetism
1" , "Digital
Hardware Design" ; “Digital Electronic Design” vol 1 , vol 2 ; “Electromagnetic Theory” vol 1 , vol 2 ; "Oliver
Heaviside, the Man" .
“The
dialogue on this matter with the IEE [now IET] (who refused
to give reasons for rejection) was bitter, culminating in a row at the
IEE's (Institution of Electrical Engineers) A.G.M. for 1977. It will be
renewed at the 1978 A.G.M. , probably.” – Below.
Malcolm
Davidson was a member of the IEE, so he raised a question (in advance) at
the IEE 1977 A.G.M. He began by saying to the 200 present; “Are there any
experts in electromagnetic theory here?” There was a deathly hush. After
a long delay, Professor J (Pat) Brown of Imperial College. Nobody else
volunteered.
Presumably
because we managed to get the article "Displacement
Current" published in Wireless World, we did not resume opur “discussion” with the IEE.
The
IEE have never published anything by Catt, Walton or Davidson.
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