Electromagnetic Theory; Maxwell's Equations; Ivor Catt

Letters to officials

naturephysics@nature.com

Dear Editor, I shall be very grateful if you reply to my letter addressed to May Chiao. She has not replied.
http://www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/64maychiao.htm

Yours faithfully,
Ivor Catt 17th March 2007 Also sent slomail

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----- Original Message -----
From: Nature Physics
To: ivor catt
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 2:17 PM
Subject: RE: To The Editor
Dear Mr Catt, Further to your letters and e-mail, I’m afraid that we cannot offer to publish your article as a Commentary in Nature Physics, and we cannot enter into any further correspondence on the matter. - Sincerely, Alison Wright, Chief Editor, Nature Physics

These 33 words (above) are the only communication I ever received from “Nature Physics”. Ivor Catt 13^th June 2010

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The above was the first letter from anyone on the editorial board of "Nature Physics". Note that I did not propose that they publish my "article". I now give items from my letter (below) to May Chiao which make that clear;

1 "I told you that I would approach you later with some copy. "The Catt Question" is an obvious candidate for a Commentary in "Nature Physics"."

2 ""In addition to publishing original research, Nature Physics serves as a central source for top-quality information for the physics community through the publication of Commentaries, .... "

Note I also wrote, below; "Macmillan, the owners of your journal "Nature Physics", later re-published much of our lighter material in "Digital Hardware Design" ." However, May Chiao's husband is a Cambridge University lecturer, and her loyalty is obviously to academia, not to her employers, Macmillan! Her we see in operation the insidious synergy between academia and the learned journals, even defying their employers. Note that Chiao went much further than rejecting my proposals. She did not even reply to me.

Ivor Catt, 7 June 2009.

Letter to May Chiao, Associate Editor of Nature physics.

Ivor Catt, 121 Westfields,

St. Albans AL3 4JR, England.

(01727 864257

+44 1727 864257

email ivorcatt@electromagnetism.demon.co.uk

website www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/

2 April 2006

Second copy sent 3 July 2006

Third copy sent 21 August 2006

May Chiao, Associate Editor, Nature Physics,

Nature Publishing Group, The Macmillan Building,.

4 Crinan Street, London N1 9XW TEL: +44 (0) 20 7833 4000

Dear May Chiao,

The Catt Question

In Cambridge, my partner Libuse Mikova and I had a long discussion with you recently at dinner at Trinity College High Table and later in our cups. You told us that your journal "Nature Physics" included Electromagnetic Theory as part of its remit. I told you that I would approach you later with some copy. "The Catt Question" is an obvious candidate for a Commentary in "Nature Physics".

Remarkably, my partner Libuse Mikova insists that you also said; "What is censorship?"

There is a precedent. In 1978, I noticed that "Wireless World" was independently publishing articles by Dr. David Walton and Malcolm Davidson. I telephoned the editor, the late Tom Ivall, and told him that Walton and Davidson were members of a three man research team covering digital design and electromagnetic theory. I further said that he, as Editor, had a problem because electronics was moving rapidly from analogue to digital. I said that I was sure he did not have cover in digital electronics. We were leading researchers in that field, and could deliver to him the copy he needed for the transition from analog to digital.

After only ten minutes on the telephone, Tom asked to visit me. He and his wife came to St. Albans for the day to discuss matters with me. This led to Wireless World publishing articles and letters discussing our contributions to digital design and electromagnetic theory in every monthly issue for the ten years 1978 to 1988. The circulation at the time was 60,000 per month.

Macmillan, the owners of your journal "Nature Physics", later re-published much of our lighter material in "Digital Hardware Design" . Wireless World also published some of our findings at the heavier end, Electromagnetic Theory. Some of these heavier Wireless World articles are now on the www, including "Displacement Current". , "Maxwell's Equations Revisited" , "History of Displacement Current" , "The Heaviside Signal" , "A mathematical rake's progress" , "The Hidden Message in Maxwell's Equations" , "The Deeper Hidden Message in Maxwell's Eqiations" "Maxwell, Einstein and the Aether" , Death of Electric Current

As with Ivall and Wireless World, "Nature Physics" needs cover over the developments in electromagnetic theory resulting from the digital experience. I can provide much of this.

The first, easy step will be for you to publish under the remit in your journal which goes as follows;

"In addition to publishing original research, Nature Physics serves as a central source for top-quality information for the physics community through the publication of Commentaries, Research Highlights, News & Views, Reviews and Correspondence."

Already the subject of an IEE Article a decade ago, "The Catt Question" is an obvious candidate for a Commentary in "Nature Physics". This very elementary question in electromagnetic theory is answered in contradictory ways by one half and the other half of accredited experts in the field - Professors and text book writers. The "Southerners" are led by Sir Michael Pepper FRS , Fellow of Trinity and Professor at The Cavendish. The "Westerners" are led by Nobel Prizewinner Professor Brian Josephson, also Fellow of Trinity and Professor at The Cavendish. Currently, Josephson is having difficulty in getting clarity from Pepper.

Students at Cambridge and elsewhere have not been warned that there is uncertainty , persisting for decades, at the core of the Electromagnetic Theory taught to them.

I look forward to your reply to this proposal.

The larger opportunity for good copy for "Nature Physics" comes later, when we can discuss whether advances in Electromagnetic Theory are possible. Precursors are in "Wireless World" twenty years ago. They include; "The conquest of Thought" , "The Conquest of Truth" and "The Conquest of Science" .

Ivor Catt,

121 Westfields,

St. Albans AL3 4JR

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References:

I have lectured on censorship in science (see Maddox ). I have published my theories, leading to"The clever take the brilliant"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Catt - Catt's views on electromagnetism

http://www.ivorcatt.com/28anom.htm

http://www.ivorcatt.com/2812.htm

http://www.ivorcatt.com/2813.htm

http://www.ivorcatt.com/28scan.htm

http://www.ivorcatt.org/digital-hardware-design.htm