Dear Professor Mahta Moghaddam, Editor, IEEE,
The three weeks you gave Pieraccini and Selleri in April was far too short for P&S to reply to "Conflation",
my comment on their article “Catt’s anomaly”. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x59b1.htm . Please give them a more reasonable two months. We need a
considered reply. They do write about the fundamentals, after a fashion. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x65d1.pdf
For some reason I
did not realise that P&S say the central feature of Catt's theory is
exactly the opposite of what it (and Heaviside’s) really is. Of course,
"The Catt Question", which they call "Catt's anomaly", is a
Question, and has nothing to do with any Catt theory. However, this
falsification of Catt and Heaviside theory is damaging.
I would repeat that
we can all get out of this mess, where the IEEE, in a peer reviewed journal,
has falsified Catt's work, if you invite me to write a paper on electromagnetic
theory. The IEEE published me extensively for many years, e.g. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x0305.htm , but blocked me for
the next 50 years. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x121.htm . The IEEE has
rejected for publication Catt theory for 50 years, and now misrepresents it.
Ivor Catt. 30 May 2016
http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x54c.pdf - Pieraccini and Selleri
However, in our
opinion, Catt probably misinterprets the concepts of charge and field. The
“Anomaly” is there because in his view, currents are the source of the TEM
wave, and should be there before the wave they cause.
Catt said the
opposite 200 times.
A Google search for
"we reverse this" + heaviside + catt
has 200 hits.
Catt's life work,
following Heaviside, is based on the field causing the current, not the current
the field.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbWWrR4dgtw&authuser=0
http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x3117.htm
In Heaviside's
magnificent, regal statement, "We reverse this." In his Electrical
Papers, vol. 1, 1892, page 438, Heaviside wrote;
Now, in Maxwell's
theory there is the potential energy of the displacement produced in the
dielectric parts by the electric force, and there is the kinetic or magnetic
energy of the magnetic force in all parts of the field, including the
conducting parts. They are supposed to be set up by the current in the wire
[Theory N]. We reverse this; the current in the
wire is set up by the energy transmitted through the medium around it [Theory
H]…. 1 , 2
Ivor Catt 31 May 2016