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Dear Ivor (et al):
I have not the time
or inclination to go through or try to understand all the various
long and short answers to your question about a battery connected by wires to a
lamp. There is simply too much of it.
I have written out
some 'answers' to the question and to the various remarks made by others about
it.
My answers are very
lengthy and therefore I expect that few people will have the time or inclination to
read what I have written. However, being confined to my house and garden
and spending much time doing apparently useful things like gardening and
avoiding watching TV, I wrote all this for variety and as a contrasting form of
relaxation, and therefore inflict it on you.
Tony Davies
2020 June 13th
Prof Anthony C Davies 
Emeritus Professor, King's College London
IEEE R8 History Activities
coordination
IEEE Industry Applications Society Distinguished Lecturer 2017-2018
e-mail: tonydavies@ieee.org web: www.tonydavies.org.uk
On Monday, 8 June
2020, 13:26:44 BST, Ivor Catt <ivorcatt@gmail.com>
wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Howie
Dear Professor Archie Howie,
I ask you a simple question in the interest of
science.
When a battery is connected to a lamp and the lamp
lights, perhaps two things travel from battery to lamp;
1 Electric current down the wires, delivering the
power to light the lamp.
2 Electromagnetic energy ExH
guided by the wires, travelling between the wires, delivering the power. This
is the same as the energy with which the sunlight warms you.
Which of these, ! or 2 or
both, deliver power to the lamp?
In 1892 Heaviside said that all the energy lighting
the lamp travelled in the space between the wires.
https://www.ivorcatt.com/6_4.htm
"Return
to our wire from London to Edinburgh with a steady current from the battery in
London The energy is poured out of the battery sideways into
the dielectric at a steady rate ... Most of the energy is transmitted parallel
to the wire nearly ... But some of the outer tubes go out into space to an
immense distance ... If there is an instrument in the circuit at Edinburgh, it
is worked by energy that has travelled wholly through the dielectric, then
finding its way into the instrument, ... where it enters ... and is there
dissipated ...
Refusal to clarify this point by people like you
has silenced the next advance, made in 1976, towards Theory D. We have lost 44
years.
http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x8cbwash.htm
Your silence, when you were approached 40
years ago with cattq, needs to end. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/cattq.htm
You are wrong to pretend that cattq
was a disagreement between you and me. It was a disagreement between you and
Pepper, who worked for you, which you refused to resolve. He is on this
circulation. He wrote rubbish on cattq. Brian Josephsopn told me Pepper had changed his mind, but
for 30 years Pepper has used the fifth amendment, totally silent. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x67d.htm
Ivor Catt
http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x949.htm
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http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/brian51.htm
Your oafish behavior, together with your manifest ignorance on the
topic of basic electricity (which you appear to be proud of), indicates that
you, Mr. Howie, are not fit for purpose.
You will have to
issue a retraction (multiple counts), step down and renounce your titles, and
repair your ill-gotten gains. Repent.
History will not be kind to you, Mr. Howie.
Forrest Bishop, A Colleague Of Ivor Catt
http://forrestbishop.mysite.com/
http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x6611.pdf