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Ivor Catt; “Crosstalk (Noise) in Digital Systems”, pub. IEEE Trans. Comput., vol. EC-16, no. 16, December 1967

 

Best copy  http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x147.pdf

Pages 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , some of which is in two of my books. The argument starts at page 30 of one book , and at page 4 of the other book , continuing on page 5. Here in figure 9.2 we see “a very narrow pulse introduced at the front end of the active line. If there were no parallel passive line nearby, this pulse would travel down the active line (at the speed of light for the dielectric) more or less unchanged,” in a TEM mode. “However, as the other two traces show, the presence of the passive line caused the original narrow pulse to break up into two similar pulses.”

Chapter XI

The error in this paper . Simplified Exposition of the error .

 

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I failed to realise the key message from this paper for 46 years (not 43, because publication was blocked for three years). I was too excited by discovering the two velocities, which were not known, and missed the main chance, which is discussed here , in 2010, after 46 years

Ivor Catt  25 June 2010.

 

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Further supporting material for the IET article; “End of electric charge and electric current as we know them.”

A more thorough exposition.

Dr Arnold Lynch and Ivor Catt, "A Difficulty in Electromagnetic Theory" , IEE Science, Education and Technology, “The history of electrical engineering”, 26th Weekend Meeting, 10-12 July 1998

"The Catt Question" , "Electronics World" , May 2009.

"The Death of Electric Current" ,  p1 , p2 , p3

"The Heaviside Signal"

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