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Ivor Catt, 121 Westfields,St. Albans AL3 4JR England tel 01727 864257 7feb95 second copy sent 26june95 27 July 2009. No reply received. 22 Oct 2012 copy sent to secretary@mail.ntust.edu.tw Same day letter to NTUST Department of Electronic Engineering #43,Sec.4,Keelung Rd., Taipei,10607,Taiwan,R.O.C http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x885hsue.pdf Ching-Wen Hsue, [Fellow of the IEEE] AT&T Bell Laboratories, P.O. Box 900, Princeton, N.J. 08540, USA Dear Mr. Hsue, re. your article , copied here , “A DC Voltage is Equivalent to Two Traveling Waves .... ” March 1993 "The contrapuntal model for the charged capacitor.” 13 years before by me. Not cited The two models Search reference. Still no reply, 2012 re your; A static dc voltage can be treated as two travelling waves propagating in opposite directions of a lossless, nonuniform transmission line." I would point out two things; 1. You echo Copernicus' restrained use of the earth moving as an instrument, not as a fact to be believed. Further, Copernicus delayed publishing even this restrained suggestion until after his death. Galileo was subjected to house arrest because he insisted on saying, not only that a moving earth was a useful conceptual instrument for calculation, but that he believed that the earth moved. [However, to go deeper, read G de Santillana, "The Crime of Galileo", Univ. of Chicago Press, 1955.] You probably do not know that the so-called dc voltage is two contrapuntal waves (not merely “can be treated as two travelling waves”) so, like Copernicus, you do not risk excommunication. [That is, the notion of a steady state charged capacitor with electric charge loafing on the under-side of each plate is a myth.] Once the energy has been delivered at the speed of light, which is the only speed at which it can be delivered1, there is no mechanism for it to slow down. 2. You are wrong to limit the case to the lossless line, see last col. of p46 of my sep84 article in Electronics and Wireless World. Losses cannot slow this stuff down, because of the way losses cancel out or otherwise remove themselves from the matter. The stationary model is completely untenable because unapproachable. Energy current cannot slow down. We have to be burned at the stake. Mike Gibson and I develop these ideas further in ProcIEEE june83 and june87. Try to work out the much simpler solution for the june87 case. Or beg me for it. Too simple to publish, it would be dismissed as banal. Only the tortuous approach is publishable! My most recent book, Electromagnetism 1 , pub. Westfields Press, England, nov94, p5, argues that once the contrapuntal model for the charged capacitor is propounded, Ockham's Razor tells us that we have to discard the traditional, stationary model for the charged capacitor. Yours sincerely, Ivor Catt cc Mike Gibson, 8514 134th Ct NE Redmond, Wi\ 98052 USA Whereas Copernicus retreated from asserting that the earth moved, and used the idea merely as a conjecture, or instrument, for calculation of the position of heavenly bodies, Galileo was subjected lo house arrest because he asserted that he believed that the earth moved; that it was true that the earth moved. (This is the superficial Galileo story, not that of Santillana.) The parallel with the question of whether there is movement in a charged capacitor is closer than I thought when I wrote my letter to the Ching-Wen Hsue, see enclosed. Ching-Wen Hsue, like Copcrnicus, is in the end publishable because he proposes movement in a charged capacitor only as an instrument for the calculation of the movement of electrical energy elsewhere. Catt has been totally totally ignored for 30 years (and ignored by Ching-Wen Hsue), and kept out of all learned journals, because he asserted such movement as the true theory. We live in medaeval times. - Ivor Catl, 14feb95 This copy printed 26/06/95 cc Lenore Simon, I.E.E., Savoy Place, Central London Lenore, I understand that the President of the lEE, whom I approached, made no effort to get my latest (nov94) book reviewed by an lEE journal, so Ivor Catt's theories still continue to not exist among learned circles. Note the graduaI infiltration of the Catt, or Contrapuntal, model for a charged capacitor (see Wireless World 1980) as a conjecture, or instrument, into the more prestigious New York IEEE journal. Perhaps the London lEE will feel it safe to follow behind after a suitable delay of 5 or 10 years, but only under the name of a foreigner, I suppose, to minimise the political implications! cc The President, lEE, Savoy Place, Stnmd, Centml London. 1 1t is not possible for energy current to travel down a transmission slower than the speed of light. You can reach this conclusion by playing with Maxwell's equations, see Appendix I of my 1967 IEEE Paper ; IEEE Trans. Elect. Compo vol EC-16 no. 6, dec 1967, p 761. 3[added 24june95] This is an error. The suppression runs to 35 years. See Electronics and Wireless World, May95, 435. The biggest name in the world in e-m theory (Catt) cannot be published on e-m in any peer reviewed journal. Where are they? Ethics “Ethics is part of the defence mechanism of an entrenched Establishment. Anything done in defence of an entrenched Science Establishment is by definition ethical. Anything attempted which threatens an entrenched Science Establishment (like pointing to a fundamental error in a published refereed journal, and thus a flaw in classical theory) is by definition unethical.” When evading heresy, a Defender of the Faith may break all rules of behaviour which apply to him in any other of his activities. The example here is not citing previous publication; not replying when this is pointed out. His primary responsibility is to Defend the Faith. Ethics and rules of conduct take second place. It can become extremely difficult to defend a ruling paradigm against heresy. Of course, it is helpful if it is agreed that a Defender of the Faith is by definition never a plagiarist. Once that is agreed, then the threat posed by heresy can be minimised by having it very gradually absorbed into the Faith. Those who do the careful orchestration will of course be Establishment, not heretics. "If you have got anything new, in substance or in method, and want to propagate it rapidly, you need not expect anything but hindrance from the old practitioner - even though he sat at the feet of Faraday..... he is very disinclined to disturb his ancient prejudices. But only give him plenty of rope, and when the new views have become fashionably current, he may find it worth his while to adopt them, though, perhaps, in a somewhat sneaking manner, not unmixed with bluster, and make believe he knew all about it when he was a little boy!" Oliver Heaviside, "Electromagnetic Theory Vol. 1", p337, 1893. Plagiarism . “IEEE defines plagiarism as the reuse of someone else's prior ideas, processes, results, or words without explicitly acknowledging the original author and source. It is important for all IEEE authors to recognize that plagiarism in any form, at any level, is unacceptable and is considered a serious breach of professional conduct, with potentially severe ethical and legal consequences.” Professor Ching-Wen Hsue is a Fellow of the IEEE. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x2an.pdf . .
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