One
honourable course would be for you to disqualify yourself,
as Professor Secker , selected to represent
the IEE/IET, did;
“Secker wrote on 26oct95; ’I should explain that I am no expert in the area to which the ”Catt Anomaly”
refers....’.
He repeated this claim on 19dec95. That got him out of the way, and could get you out
of the way.
At present, having been "knighted for services to physics", you continue your 30 years of obstructing progress in science.
http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x67t.htm
Ivor
Catt,
121
Westfields,
St.
Albans AL3 4JR
11
July 2016.
+44
(0)1727 864257
23 August. No reply.
19 October 2017. Still no
reply.
3.2.2021. Still no reply.
Sir Michael Pepper,
Department of Electronic & Electrical
Engineering
University College London
Torrington Place
London
WC1E 7JE
Dear Sir Michael Pepper,
The situation has changed, and the new situation
requires action by you.
Your and Catt’s college, Trinity College ,
Cambridge, Newton’s college, used to boast that it had as many Nobel Prize
Winners as France. Note in particular your then colleague, 1973 Nobel Prize
Winner Professor Brian Josephson
, wrote 100 emails to Catt about "The
Catt Question" . In 1993 the Master of your college chose you as his top
expert, and asked you to write to Catt about "The Catt Question" You did so, taking the "Southerner" position.
You were then incommunicado for twenty years. During those 20 years of silence,
your colleague Josephson 2 wrote to Catt that you had changed
you mind, and were now, like him, a "Westerner"
. You never confirmed this, so your present position is unclear.
The new situation is that your view has been
falsified in a leading peer reviewed journal. Pieraccini
and Selleri "P&S" falsely say
that your view is "Westerner"
. There are contradictory peer reviewed publications by the “Antennas and
Propagation” (perhaps 50,000 members) section of the New York IEEE, 500,000
members, some Southerner like you and the IEEE’s own Morgenthaler , and some
Westerner, like P&S. Although they correctly say you are a “renowned
physicist”, they falsely say that you take their "Westerner" position.
"P&S"; “One is a 1993 letter by Sir Michael Pepper (born August 10, 1942), a
renowned physicist. .... Besides some wrong explanations incompatible with
Gauss’ Law [Southerner
like Pepper’s], most of the answers agreed in considering the problem not to be an
anomaly at all.”
The four facts that 1 both your writing and 2
the writing of P&S are technically incompetent,
and also 3 that P&S’s writing is highly
defamatory of Catt (but 4 you have not defamed
Catt) are irrelevant to the key issue. What is at stake here is what Bruce
Charlton 1 2 calls “The Gold Standard” of
today’s science, Peer Reviewed literature. The “Gold Standard” cannot remain
corrupted by two peer reviewed and so authoritative, but contradictory
statements, Westerner and Southerner, on the central feature of classical
electromagnetic theory in today’s digital age, the mechanism of a signal down a
USB cable.
Having been editor of the
top Royal Society journal, your duty to physics did not end when you were
knighted for services to physics. You have a duty to make your position on "The
Catt Question" clear, Southerner or Westerner, or at
least to say the matter is unimportant. Being knighted
for services to physics carries a price, a continuing duty to physics.
In October 2016 the IEEE
Antennas journal 1 will
publish "Conflation"
. It is Catt’s reply to the P&S
Westerner article which falsifies your "Southerner" position.
Along with it will be published the P&S reply to "Conflation" .
Professor Pelosi (who also defamed Catt) was the IEEE
Associate Editor involved in publishing the original defamatory article by his close colleagues
P&S in Florence University. It is
necessary that you immediately write to Pelosi giuseppe.pelosi@unifi.it , who is responsible for publishing "Conflation" and the
P&S reply (at present confidential, and incompetent). Your comment will be
included in the same October issue.
Ivor Catt
Monica Vandory
Robert Whiston
J. Dinsdale, Former
Engineering Professor at Cranfield and Dundee Universities. Late of Trinity
College.
Dr. Harold Hillman
I need this quote
(below) handy.
"We
all of us have some idea of what the basic axioms in physics will turn out to
be.
The
quantum or particle will surely not be amongst them; the field, in Faraday's
and
Maxwell's sense, could possibly be, but it is not certain."
-
Einstein in "The Born-Einstain Letters" by Max Born, pub.
Macmillan 1971. p164.