25.2.2024
Extraordinarily, Dore has taken on the role of Court Jester. In contrast, Cook
has disappeared.
I
have to leave them on my website because I see them as integral to the history
of science. Sorry
What
a shame Cook’s very good Youtube interview of me has
been corrupted, only half remaining.
The
Rising Star that didn’t.
Prestige figures in science have
the same function as charismatic figures in politics and religion, or
celebrities in entertainment. - Letter from the late Hiram Caton
A syndrome surrounding
major scientific advance has never been noted, and those caught up in it
deserve our sympathy. In the case of Oliver Heaviside, an example is his friend
Oliver Lodge. In the case of Ivor Catt, we find two; Nigel Cook and John Dore.
http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/nigel.pdf
; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fqqXQPgCKo
It was a great achievement to discern a star before
it rose, and attach oneself to it. The first step was to praise him, privately
and publicly, in order to speed up the rise and advance the time when the
disciple could bathe in its reflected glory. The budding disciple knew that he
was prescient in discerning the new star before others did, and also knew that,
living in a reasonably functioning milieu, such an obvious star was bound to
rise.
However, payback time never seemed to come. This
meant that either the would-be disciple has made a mistake, and the star was
not a star, or the potential star himself was determined to not rise; “You
don’t want to be recognised”; his rudeness alienated society, he refused to
make his work clear, etc. See "Nutter"
.
What is then extraordinary is the level of venom
launched against the reluctant star – paranoid, rude, he lied, and so on,
culminating in the charge that his work is wrong anyway. For a period, such a
would-be disciple threatens the historical record. In around 2050, when the
inquest into the decline of science comes, the unsullied historical record will
be important. However, fortunately, the level of venom finally undermines the
image of the previous disciple himself, not of the reluctant star. (However, I
don’t know that Oliver Lodge descended to venom, so venom might be more
recent.)
Background.
In the 1920s Oliver Heaviside was given the first
Faraday Medal by the IEE London, so his contribution was recognised, as shown
by the letter from the IEE
. However, he was quite rapidly
“disappeared”, so that in 1960 I had no knowledge that he had made any
contribution to electromagnetic theory beyond proposing “The Heaviside Layer”. In
1960, that was all that was known about Heaviside’s Electromagnetic Theory, and
he was not mentioned in any text book for more than half a century. So the
pathology developing from the professionalisation of science was already
evident.
More generally, the new breed of professional
scientists, who took over from the rich amateur along with a very small number
of dedicated “searchers after truth” like Faraday, took remarkably long to
realise that professional science had to be stabilised in order to protect
professionals’ salaries, reputations, pensions. Even lesser scientific advance,
let alone paradigm shift, had to be blocked. There will be no future paradigm
shifts in today’s professional science like those traumatic shifts from
phlogiston and caloric.
The Rise and Fall
.... " http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/8a7.htm
Clever take the
Brilliant http://ivorcatt.co.uk/Y65BRILL.htm
Ivor
Catt, 27 August 2014
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“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently
enough, it will be believed.”
This is exactly what you are attempting
to do eventually leading your cabal/coterie over the cliff edge into oblivion.
I do encourage you to wake up to
reality but, alas, you are too convinced of your own infallibility that you
listen to no one who does revere you as some god-like being and repeats your
mantra.
If you replay your address at Newcastle
University the first part you ramble through your distant past experiments in
the USA as an introduction to establish some credibility followed by the
unfounded 'Snake Oil' sales pitch on your current suggestions. The fact you
think it was a good address shows the degree to which you are unaccustomed to
listening to good addresses.
Meanwhile those of us who have an
interest in making a meaningful contribution proceed unabashed (albeit decried
by you).
If only you could show but one advantage
of your supposed insight it would be a fantastic step forward ... but you do
not --- so what is the point of what you do?
The only end result is the waste of as
many peoples' time that you can contact.
Maybe it all because you live in an
'Alice in Wonderland' world where your thoughts are magnified into huge world
impacting results. I guess 'Gulliver's Travels' may be another world too.
There are problems to be solved but you
lack clearly any ability to make a meaningful contribution in so many years.
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For
some decades John said I should get a Nobel Prize.
John
stayed in my home a month or so ago.
http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/
Why am
i not allowed to be a normal person?
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Ivor,
John
Dore continues to interact with you, yet keeps telling you he wants nothing
more to do with you at the same time? He is conflicted for reasons he alone
knows. Part of him wants to believe and another part is afraid to. I find it
fascinating that so many people are intrigued by these issues but then find
them to be psychologically too extreme. There is a force of gravity pulling
individuals in towards the center of what we might call conventional thinking.
In John's case it is greater than his desire to embrace some new ideas.
He
therefore has to attack Ivor to justify his position.
Regards,
Malcolm
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There was a man - his name was Catt
He thought he'd cause a stir
He made no difference - that's a fact
He
could only purr
So much time wasted by so many
With what result you ask
The sad fact is you may reflect
He
cannot match the task
But on he goes both day and night
Fixated on his dream
Alas poor Catt he does not know
Another will get the cream.
http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/
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Ivor Catt <ivorcatt@gmail.com>
Feb 4 2018
to Stephen, Alex, Forrest, Tony, David, Malcolm,
Anthony, Christopher, Monika, Christopher, Mike, HARRY, Brian, theotheocharis., g.l.oppo, mary.bennett, rudolf.sykora, maxwellsociety, mikegi,
christopher.pa., massimiliano.p., stefano.selleri,
giuseppe.pelosi, g.pelosi, mahta
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mikegi
6:03 AM (3 hours ago)
to Stephen, Alex, me, Forrest, Tony, David, Malcolm, Anthony,
Christopher, Monika, Christopher, Mike, HARRY, Brian, theotheocharis.,
g.l.oppo, mary.bennett, rudolf.sykora, maxwellsociety,
christopher.pa., massimiliano.p., stefano.selleri,
giuseppe.pelosi, g.pelosi, mahta
If you want people to ignore you, keep it up. They have no obligation to tolerate name
calling.
Argue your case. If people listen, great! If they
don’t, fine. Harassing people doesn’t make your case stronger. Solving real
problems makes your case stronger. I pointed to Compton Scattering ... ....
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The enemy within.
Perhaps in 1975, Mike Gibson wrote to me to say his
University of Texas threatened to throw him out if he continued to spend so
much time reading Heaviside and Catt in the library. Catt told him that if and
when he was thrown out, he should come to stay with Catt for a month. He was later thrown out and came to me for a
month. He programmed at the same speed as others play the piano. He was the
world's top expert on Heaviside's five volumes. I do not know what drove him
later, but he joined Microsoft very early and did the fonts and other things.
If he got a stock option very early, he will be very rich. I have virtually not
heard of Compton scattering. Where are his publications promoting Heaviside?
My co-author Dr. Dave Walton put an enormous amount of
time and energy into electromagnetic theory. He has removed himself from the
present imbroglio because "he knew I wanted a
fight".
The Peer Review Cartel has blocked more or less any
publication by Catt (and the politer Gibson and Walton) for fifty years.
Recently peer reviewed journals comprehensively defamed and misrepresented Catt
(but not Gibson or Walton). (pour encourager les autres?)
One short ground breaking publication during that time has Catt and Gibson as
co-authors. It is very important, and has been ignored. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x22k1.pdf
Mike and Walton need to tell us about the later
publications their gentlemanly behaviour has led to. I
will add their location here;
….
….
….
So much for the rewards for politeness.
It took me many decades to realise
that major scientific breakthrough is extremely damaging for all concerned.
Even minor advance is damaging, and students don’t like it..
Crothers told his university in Australia that he was
going to go to the heart of Relativity. He did some lecturing at the time. The
university held a secret meeting and threw him out of university.
Some decades before, Theocharis
told me he told Imperial he was going to the heart of Relativity.
http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x1cp.pdf He was rebuffed,
and held court in the corridors and coffee shop in Imperial for some years,
living on benefits.. In the end he gave up, returned
to Cyprus, and was lost to science.
These people are among the leading scientists of the
20th century, and some of them believe they should take it and show that they
continue to be gentlemen "or they will be ignored"!!!! Get real! They
were too good, unfair competition, so the rabble (the Pop Scientists, whom the
public prefer to real science) shut them out. (Pop scientists; Rees, Hawking,
Cox, Penrose, Pepper etc. etc.)
http://corruption-of-science.blogspot.co.uk/
I have just noticed that a Nobel prize winner is among
this circulation. He is prevented from publishing because he tried to bring the
paranormal into science. Should a Nobel Prize winner be prevented from
publishing because he did not keep to the party line? Is he blocked because he
is polite, or impolite? What has politesse to do with it?
http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/archivefreedom/main.html I know that when I met him he was
polite. I cannot find his compendium of great scientists from the past who
wrote about being blocked. Of course, it is worse today. The "science
establishment", or "peer review mafia" (do a Google search for
them) has moved from blocking to outright attack. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x6611.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Josephson
When the Italians, to get past peer review, got into
the gutter defaming and misrepresenting Catt, Catt was willing to get into the
gutter as well since he decided that was needed to save science. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x5cw.htm
http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x59596.htm If you can't
stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Saving science is a dirty business. Pop
science has just received $100,000,000 of private money to look for aliens.
CERN gets billions. CERN is now more powerful than governments. My visitor
yesterday, a real scientist, cannot stand watching Brian Cox. Spineless
scientists betray science.
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Ivor,
The error in your thinking is that
you have something important to say!!!
In 1961 I saw digital pulses
travelling at the speed of light through the dielectric.
Inter door wiring and clock signal
wiring at 2MHz worked reliably in 1964.
You have been successful in causing
disruption wherever you have ventured in all aspects of your life rather than
making a profit for your employer. You failed to heed the indication that you
should leave for some years before repeated zero salary increases conveyed the
message at Ferranti.
It is your sheer arrogance for which
you will undoubtedly be remembered.
Many people manage to make multiple
if relatively small contributions in their life.
You know you are unfit to manage
staff and thus are not able to multiply any effort you may make.
You bite the hand that feeds you eg GEC
You wish to modify teaching in
schools with your thoughts which do not lend themselves to computation.
When will the torture end?
John
PS you need to structure access to
those papers you hold dear because no one will bother to follow all the trails
and cross references you have indulged in.
PPS It is amazing that you did not
set up a demonstration of metastability which could readily show what happens.
I was involved with a dunking sonar about 30 years ago where an engineer fell foul of that but fortunately he spoke to me and it did not
delay the project which is important if you have booked the Italian navy to
steam past ... we only had Christmas day off.
On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 at 18:10, Ivor
Catt <ivorcatt@gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/canon.htm
http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/tonyglitch.htm
http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/8a7.htm To change the metaphor, a body of knowledge is
like a large raft on which all kinds of violent games can and must be played,
but no one must attack the raft on which they stand, because then everyone
would drown in new ideas.
Tony,
Decades ago I should have realised that talking to people
like you is talking at cross purposes. You publish perhaps five articles per
year for say 40 years, and so say there is no censorship. That is true, because
you write and publish within the canon.
I am unable to publish, because I consistently try to
publish outside the canon. That is, I always have something important to say
which threatens the canon. In contrast, you are a creature of the canon, and
reinforce, or decorate it. .... .... See http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/canon.htm
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Ivor,
I hope you will assist
in helping to provide a compact yet comprehensive précis of each of your
achievements for submission with your nomination for a Faraday Medal.
I have already
established a number of supporters in this regard.
I view this as a
precursor for a Nobel Prize but suspect that this would be aided if it could be
made clear how some application was developed as a result of your
insightfulness which would not otherwise have arisen.
Congratulations after
such a long hard struggle!
See you Thursday this
week.
John