A correct statement of “Theory C”.

Amendment in 2018; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x8cbwash.htm

Theory C. When a battery is connected to a lamp and the lamp lights, electric current is not involved.

http://www.gsjournal.net/h/papers_download.php?id=3750

Although a cloud cannot exist without edges, the edges of a cloud do not exist. They have no width, volume, or materiality. However, the edges of a cloud can be drawn. Their shapes can be manipulated graphically and mathematically. The same is true of the so-called ‘electric current’. Previous casualties, phlogiston and caloric, were different. This is the first case in the history of science that the mathematical manipulation of something real (ExH field) has been reified, and thought to be different, something physically new. ∆.D= ϱ

ϱ, charge density, is merely the gradient on an E field. (Actually, an ExH field, but that is another story.)

I find to my horror that I misstated "Theory C" twice on my website.

I shall try a shortcut to the destination for you, never tried before.

Connect a battery via a 50ohm coax to a 50 ohm resistor.

Classic theory says electricity is delivered into the wires. This charge and current cause electric and magnetic field between the wires. This field energy ExH is delivered by the battery into the dielectric between the wires, and travels at the speed of light (for the dielectric) entering the resistor sideways.

Alternatively, the energy is delivered by the electric current driven by a voltage into the resistor.

So far there is no deviation from classical theory, although it is of course not grasped well by professors and text book writers. However, they would not refute it.

Heaviside said "We reverse this", the field causes the current, not the current the field. Here Heaviside drifts away from the Conventional Wisdom, and Catt agrees with him. He also said "By the way, is there such a thing as electric current?" Theory C does not ask such a taboo question. All Theory C says is that if a battery is connected to a lamp by two wires and the lamp lights, electric current is not involved. (Battery delivers field which delivers energy.) Theory C does not assert that there is no electric charge or current. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x54c.pdf

Theory C stands alone, and does not represent Catt's views. It is important to distinguish between Theory C and Catt’s general view on the subject, which latter includes his unstated view on electric charge and current.

I suggest that the idea that a scientist should be permitted to separate himself and his views from a theory which he promulgated is new, and obviously should be permissible.

Put that way, Theory C is not very threatening, but of course all the same the above could not be published in any peer reviewed journal. Similarly, no peer reviewed journal can risk publishing "A capacitor is a transmission line". http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x3b2.pdf

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/64maychiao.htm

Ivor Catt 17 February 2016