Explanation
of Wakefield
The 1963 manual for the Tektronix 109 pulse
generator said that a 1 meter long capacitor made up of 50 ohm coaxial cable
was charged to 8v. When discharged into a second 50 ohm cable, it outputted a 4v
2m pulse. There was no explanation. http://ivorcatt.co.uk/x212.pdf
Some decades later Catt published that the charged cable
did not have a stationary electric field. Rather, inside the cable half the
(reciprocating) energy was always travelling to the right at the speed of
light, and the other half was travelling to the left. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/97rdeat2.jpg ; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x18j86.pdf
p89.
Some decades later Tony Wakefield conducted four
experiments, each one more drastic. Never before had an experimenter looked
inside a capacitor while it was discharging.
Catt correctly predicted all the results, and
Professor Alex Yakovlev FIEEE, FIET, correctly predicted the results of
Wakefield 3, or W3, based on the same reciprocating theory. Today no one has
ventured to explain any of the results based on the assumption that a charged
capacitor has a stationary electric field. When 30 accredited experts round the
world were asked to comment on W1, no one responded. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x344.htm ; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x8apomerta.htm
. Later, the request was repeated. We still await such an explanation of
one or more W experimental results. Only Professor Alex Yakovlev breached
Academic Omerta, but his analysis of W3 is ambiguous.
http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x8b1alex2.pdf
; “According to Catt theory this is the most natural (Occam's Razor principle)
way of seeing the world of pulse-switching behaviour, ….
“.
W1, a repeat of the Tektronix 109
instrument. Connect a cable to the right hand end.
The 1m 4v energy travelling to the right immediately exits. The energy
travelling to the left does not know about the new exit route, and proceeds to
the left, reflecting at the left hand end and following the right travelling
energy. The result is a 2m 4v pulse.
W2, suggested by four Newcastle
University students. Connect a cable to both ends at
the same instant. The result is that 1m 4v energy already travelling to the
right exits on the right, and the 1m 4v energy already travelling to the left
exits into the left hand cable.
W3,
suggested by Catt many years later. Apply a short at the
right hand end of an 8v charged capacitor. Monitor the midpoint. As predicted
by Professor Yakovlev, the midpoint goes through the sequence, +8v, 0v, -8v,
0v, +8v repeating.
Think of a 2m long 4v pulse reciprocating in the 1m cable.
When the pulse meets a short at the RH end, it inverts. The 2m inverted (-4v)
pulse then travels to the left hand end and back, when it inverts again back to
+4v. The repeated cycle occupies four traverses of the 1m.
W4, the definitive experiment.
Apply a short at both ends of the 8v 1m cable, and monitor the midpoint. Think of a 2m long pulse reciprocating end to
end. Only two traverses, left right left right, are required to give the 2m
pulse two inversions, giving the midpoint sequence +8v, -8v, +8v, -8v …. , with no 0v phase.
Ivor Catt 5.10.2018
