Electromagnetic
Theory.
7 The role of Oliver Heaviside. 1 , 2
My “discovery” of Heaviside , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7
The
Searle Box 2 . Letter . Important samples from the Searle
box ; 2 . Searle
- Einstein
Oliver Heaviside was not mentioned in any text book
for more than fifty years. Actually, I phoned the only text book writer who
mentioned him, and he told me he had not read Heaviside, but only read about
him in Whittaker. Thus Heaviside’s theories disappeared.
Heaviside went up to Newcastle to help his brother in
sending Morse pulses in an undersea cable from Newcastle to Denmark 1 . In the process he
developed his very important theory, “Theory H”.
In Heaviside's magnificent, regal
statement, "We reverse this." In his Electrical Papers, vol.
1, 1892, page 438, Heaviside wrote;
Now, in
Maxwell's theory there is the potential energy of the displacement produced in
the dielectric parts by the electric force, and there is the kinetic or
magnetic energy of the magnetic force in all parts of the field, including the
conducting parts. They are supposed to be set up by the current in the wire
[Theory N]. We reverse this; the current in the wire is set up by the energy
transmitted through the medium around it [Theory H]…. 1 , 2
I needed this insight I needed from
Heaviside, whether current causes field or field causes current (Figures 3 and
4 in 1 ) but could not get,
because he had been suppressed. I did not know Heaviside had made any
contribution to electromagnetic theory. I had to rediscover the idea of “energy
current” travelling down at the speed of light guided by two conductors. I
stumbled on his work twelve years after I had rediscovered his idea.
Heaviside was suppressed because shortly
afterwards, Marconi created “waves in space”, which was much more glamorous
than the wired signals of telegraphy. Electromagnetic theory developed on the
basis of sinusoidal, steady state resonance in space. More than a fifty years
later digital electronics appeared, and I was brought into Motorola in 1964 to
look into high speed (1nsec) digital electronics, which was a scaled down
version of Heaviside’s challenge, to send Morse pulses from Newcastle to
Denmark.
Heaviside was suppressed because he sent wired, digital signals, which generates a very
different electromagnetic theory from wireless, and so is still today
suppressed by the “wireless” men who control Peer Review. I have been rejected
for publication by all Peer Reviewed journals worldwide for more than 30 years.
A century later my group advanced ahead of
Heaviside because he never realised that a capacitor is a transmission line 1 . So, far from seeing
through Maxwell’s invention of Displacement Current, he adulated it; “ .... the heaven-sent Maxwell .... ”.
He asserted that Maxwell invented Displacement Current to deal with the problem
of the capacitor. 1
. This breaks down on the realisation that a capacitor is a transmission line. 1 . Displacement Current has to
behave differently in a capacitor and in a transmission line.
Ivor Catt 11 December 2012
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