Conflation 2

The 2011 text book by Professor Morgenthaler , a Fellow of the IEEE, shows us that the mixed messages are coming from within the IEEE. He took the “southerner” position.

A year later, the IEEE article by Pieraccini and Selleri dismissed Morgenthaler’s “southerner” position as “incompatible with Gauss’ Law” http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x54c.pdf

“Besides some wrong explanations [including Morgenthaler] incompatible with Gauss’ Law, most of the answers agreed in considering the problem not to be an anomaly at all.” – i.e. the “Westerner” answer is the “indubitable” position. The two Pieraccini articles, the second entitled “An apparent paradox: Catt’s anomaly”, took the Westerner position. They say “The Catt Question” “has a clear and satisfactory solution and it can be considered indubitably just an apparent paradox.” This contradicts Morgenthaler of the IEEE.

So the contradiction is within the IEEE. It is important that this be made clear. The message in “The Catt Question” is, not (as Pieraccini pretends) that there is something wrong with classical theory, but that it has not been clearly defined. Is the Westerner or the Southerner position to be taught as “classical electromagnetism”, or will all students and IEEE members be told that there is confusion?

“The point about the Catt Anomaly has, says Ivor, nothing to do with his theory. It is an anomaly between rival textbooks and professors [Pepper and McEwan] [Morgenthaler and Pieraccini] . They will answer his polite query in their condescending authoritative manner until they are told that their ‘explanation’ is the exact opposite of that taken by other authors and professors . Then they cannot be induced to communicate with one another to resolve the problem.” – Editorial , Electronics World, August 2003, p3.

This has now been brought within the IEEE with the rival versions by Morgenthaler and Pieraccini.

I did think that “Conflation”, my reply to the Pieraccini article, could not be altered because Pieraccini had already in his turn replied to it. However, apparently that is not true, and “Conflation” has been altered, or as I put it “butchered”, by Christina Tang-Bernas, and publication of the butchered version delayed until next year. So it is important to add Morgenthaler to “Conflation”, as follows;

“Thus, Professor Massimiliano Pieraccini and Professor Stefano Selleri contradict Sir Michael Pepper, and vice versa. Professor Secker and Bas Lago of the IEE/IET and the text book by Professor Morgenthaler, Fellow of the IEEE support Pepper.”

We need to distinguish between cover-up, which would entail excluding this addition, and search for truth, which would demand its inclusion.

I quote the IEEE’s home page;

“IEEE Advancing Technology for Humanity. The world’s largest technical professional organisation dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.” Truth will out.

Ivor Catt 4 November 2016

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http://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html

IEEE Code of Ethics

7 to seek, accept, and offer honest criticism of technical work, to acknowledge and correct errors, and to credit properly the contributions of others;

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The Power and Beauty of Electromagnetic Fields

Frederic R. Morgenthaler

ISBN: 978-1-118-05757-5

678 pages

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We see that the Morgenthaler book is an IEEE book.