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The Catt Question

Recent correspondence can be found via http://www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/66e.htm
Please reassure Lord Rees that "Southerner" Sir Michael Pepper (knighted 2006 "for services to Physics") is right, and "Westerner" Nobel Prizewinner Josephson wrong. I trust that you have not changed your view from "Southerner" to "Westerner" since 1995 when you "reviewed" .. my book for the IEE. You should be pleased that the gong went to your (Sir Pepper's) side. On the other hand, you may decide to trade up to the "Westerner", Nobel Prizewinner Josephson, side.

I quote your support for Pepper; "The charges come to the surface to help the wave go by and then pass the task to other charges further along the line which are already there and waiting. This is the mechanism of guidance and containement. There is no anomaly." - B Lago. [That is, Gauss's Law can be jettisoned when a revered theory has to be saved.]
Tell Lord Rees that Pepper was correct when he said; "charge supplied from outside the system would have to travel at light velocity as well, which is clearly impossible."

Lord Rees is at mjr36@cam.ac.uk

Ivor Catt. 17 August 2006.

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cc Professor Josephson, Trinity College,

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cc Professor Pepper, Trinity College,

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