McEwan
grovels to Pepper FRS
"I
must say that I don't think you are doing anything useful by stirring up issues
of north versus south, east etc. ….
"I am prepared to take slight issue with
Prof Pepper - again in a completely
friendly way I hope - about the main component of the velocity of the
charges. My recollection is that he agreed with me that the required
charges are already in the section of line to start with, but I think he
implied that the charges move laterally outward to generate the surface
charge as the wave moves over them. I would assert that the main component
of particle velocity is longitudinal.
….
I am sure Prof Pepper will not be in the
least offended by my raising this
contention, and anyway I am quite prepared to be shot down about it if I
myself am wrong.
…. ….
I would like to think that I have cleared up
the point about the
longitudinal and transverse particle motions, so I would suggest now that
you let the other parties see my comments and see if there are interesting
reactions. Maybe they will now feel that we have reached a concensus. [But
Pepper remains incommunicado since June 21, 1993. How then can we "reach
concensus" - or even consensus? - Ivor Catt, 3 May 2007.] But
please do ask yourself most searchingly whether you can still pin down any
genuine contradiction in it.
Very best wishes,
Neil McEwan [18jan2000]