Theory C, Energy and the Transmission Line.

Theory C needs to be delimited.

Sometimes I have deviated from the proper definition of “Theory C”, which is; When a battery is connected to a lamp by two wires and the lamp lights, electric current is not involved.

It is not necessary, under “Theory C”, to assert that there is no electric current. The key point is that what Heaviside called “energy current” travels along in the region between the two wires, guided by the wires. If the wires are not perfect conductors, some of the energy moves sideways and enters into the wires.

It is not part of “Theory C” that this energy entering the wires has been wrongly thought to be electric charge and electric current, and that electric charge and electric current do not exist. That is an assertion by Catt, but is not part of “Theory C”.

Whether electric charge and electric current exist breaks down into two;

1 When a battery is connected by two wires to a lamp which lights, electric charge and electric current do not exist.

2 Nowhere do electric charge and electric current exist.

2 is more extreme than 1. 2 is complicated because it is not clear whether it is thought that trapped TEM waves can be regarded as electric charge or electric current.

Ivor Catt 8 February 12013.