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Analysis After more or less totally failing to publish for
some decades in refereed journals, with the occasional exception , I
stumbled on "The
Catt Question" , an elementary question
in established electromagnetic theory. I caused two senior administrators in
academia to select their top expert, instructing them to write to me with the
answer. Their replies totally contradicted each other,
Pepper the Southerner and McEwan the Westerner
. Third parties then pointed this out to them, and they did nothing about it
for some decades. Of particular interest is Sir Michael Pepper FRS,
later knighted “for services to physics”, who has remained incommuncado since 1993, his one and only letter to me.
He has also become the editor of the top journal of The Royal Society. After some years Nobel Prizewinner
Brian Josephson, Westerner ,
got involved, and emailed to me that Pepper now agreed with him. However,
Pepper refuses to confirm this. This is important, because others have copied
Pepper’s ridiculous “Southerner” reply to "The Catt Question"
. These include the IEE
(now IET). “The
flaw here is the assumption that the charges move with the wave. whereas in reality they simply come to the surface as the
wave passes, and when it has gone they recede into the conductor.” They and others need to be told that
the man who misled them has changed his mind. The pressure on Pepper to comment has gradually
increased until the first four Google hits for “pepper frs”
are by me, and also numbers 17, 18, 19, 20. What is the sanction against someone who was
knighted for services to physics, and then refuses to confirm or deny that he
has changed his position on fundamentals from what he wrote in 1993? Ivor Catt. 14 August 2011 20 March 2012. The Principal of Pepper’s new college, University College London, refuses to reply to this email to him (above). This correlates with the refusal of Lord Rees when Master of Trinity and also when President of the Royal Society to do anything about the refusal of his members to do anything about their contradiction on fundamentals. That is, in Science, the administrative head of an organisation will endorse and support misconduct of this kind by his senior members. 1 , 2 , 3 – Ivor Catt |
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