Background.

During work on high speed digital systems, a major breakthrough was made in 1976, unprecedented since the disappearance of phlogiston and Caloric 200 years previously. It was obvious that we would face difficulty, so we kept the breakthrough secret, merely asking for clarification of the theory it should replace; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/cattq.htm ; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x37p.htm . The response was totally recalcitrant for four decades, culminating in ridicule and misrepresentation in peer reviewed literature http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x311a.htm , which we are still not allowed to publish in, our replies being suppressed or butchered. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x59b1.htm . The final destination is Theory D. “When a battery lights a lamp, there is no electric current”. This was the 1976 breakthrough, 40 years ago. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/778b.htm - Ivor Catt 14.1.2019

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x918spargo.htm

I bungled it.

I spent a lot of time planning the letter below to Chris Spargo, and completely missed the Elephant in the Room. This was that last year, Professor Alex Yakovlev, guest editor for “Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A", http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/yak.htm , asked for details of the Wakefield Experiment 3 [W3], and correctly predicted the heretical results even before the experiment was done by Tony Wakefield. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x85jalex1.pdf ; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x85jalex2.pdf ; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x85j.htm . Co-editor Chris Spargo proposed to repeat another Wakefield experiment which gives heretical results, but failed to do so; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x343.pdf . In these circumstances, it is surely a matter of course for Chris Spargo to endorse his co-editor’s heretical statement in the Royal Society journal; “there is no such a thing as a static electric field in a capacitor” - http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/yak.htm . We look forward to him doing so, or repudiating the Wakefield and Yakovlev results.

I would welcome the Editor John Dainton inviting me to write up the repercussions of these experimental results, Wakefield 1 through 4, which are extensive. It all began in the Royal Society when Editor Professor Yakovlev wrote; a capacitor is a transmission line. Classical electromagnetism deals with them in contradictory ways. For example, displacement current both does, and does not, cause a magnetic field. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x22j.pdf

W1 Connect to one end of a charged coaxial cable. http://ivorcatt.co.uk/x212.pdf ; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x343.pdf

W2 Connect to both ends. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x3a922.pdf

W3 Short one end. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x91cw3.jpg ; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x91cw31.jpg

W4 Short both ends. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x91cw4.jpg

Ivor Catt 12.1.2019

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x885hsue.pdf

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/96582.htm

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/ub07mgib.htm

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Theory N. When a battery lights a lamp, the current in the wires causes the field between the wires.

Theory H. Heaviside’s theory. The field causes the current in the wires. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x542.htm

Theory C. When a battery lights a lamp, electric current is not involved.

Theory D. When a battery lights a lamp, there is no electric current. The so-called electric current and charge are merely artefacts resulting from mathematically manipulating the ExH field. Electricity may have other roles, but not to light a lamp, which is lit by ExH energy. ʃ Hdl=I is reversible, as with the rest of the mathematics. Causality is not specified. (This resolves cattq. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/cattq.htm )

Ivor Catt 12.1.2018

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http://www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/66.htm

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x857.htm

Ivor Catt,

121 Westfields,

St. Albans AL3 4JR

10.1.2019

Recorded delivery.

Chris Spargo,

5 Coatham Drive,

Hartlepool, TS26 0AQ

Dear Chris,

As joint editor, you are partly responsible for the Alex Yakovlev article, partly reproduced here; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/yak.htm

The article contains seven heresies, discussed here; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x8ceyak.htm

Please advise us as to which heresies you endorse.

Yours faithfully,

Ivor Catt

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x8ceyak;

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x162.pdf

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x857.htm

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x89uned.htm

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A

MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Energy current and computing

Alex Yakovlev

Published 29 October 2018

Yakovlev deviations from the canon.

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/yak.htm

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2017.0449

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rsta/376/2134

The article by Alex Yakovlev has numerous deviations, or heresies, outside the “Modern Physics” canon for electromagnetic theory, which has held sway for a century ever since Heaviside threatened it and was suppressed. He was then unmentioned in any text book for more than half a century. By now, “work” within the canon amounts to many billions of euros per year, including CERN and LIGO. Escape from the canon threatens thousands of people’s positions, reputations, salaries, and billions of money p.a.

The three unquotable Heaviside quotes which I have identified are;

“By the way, is there such a thing as electric current? ….”

“We reverse this …. ” the field causes the current ….

Energy current.

Here are some of the Yakovlev deviations. Total seven, “too big to fail”.

”We reverse this …. “ http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x542.htm

Theory C. http://www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/63lem2.htm

a capacitor is a transmission line. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x2ab.pdf ; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x22j.pdf

There is no such thing as a static electric field in a capacitor. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x2ab.pdf

Displacement current …. has no physical reality. http://www.ivorcatt.org/icrwiworld78dec1.htm

Wakefield experiment (leading to heretical results). http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x343.pdf

(Wakefield) …. Half the energy in a charged capacitor is always travelling from right to left at the speed of light, and the other half from left to right. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x343.pdf

Any one of these deviations destroys classical electromagnetism, and with it “Modern Physics”.

Professor Alex Yakovlev does not mention “The Catt Question” cattq, which needs to be mentioned here. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/cattq.htm

Ivor Catt 14.12.2018

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x0605.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.”

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Recorded Delivery,

Cc Alex Yakovlev

Recorded Delivery,

Cc John Dainton, Editor,

philtrans@royalsociety.org,

6 Carlton House,

London SW1Y 5AG

5.9.2021. I received no reply to this recorded delivery letter to Dainton.