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Request to Nobel Prizewinner Brian Josephson
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A number of analyses of the situation have been written by Ivor Catt recently. There are also historical ones.
25 April 2007. Dear CP, Following our three hour discussion yesterday, including our agreement about the joys of riding a tandem bicycle, a little more than one hour of which referred to "The Catt Question". The behaviour of Rees, Josephson, Pepper, Chiao and every other person with any relevant authority is perfectly described in my 1978 article "The rise and fall of bodies of knowledge" ;
" .... more and more of the activity within the knowledge becomes 'celebration', more and more ceremonial rather than exercise in depth. As a result, a different calibre of person is attracted to the large knowledge, lacking the ability to understand and defend a body of knowledge with many levels of meaning. They are 'maintenance men' rather than 'builders'. The central body of knowledge ossifies, becomes brittle and disintegrates. This is how civilizations collapse, how religions and cities collapse, and how a scientific community will collapse."
Rees, Josephson, Pepper, Chiao lack any elementary grasp of the concept underlying "The Catt Question" , which is the TEM Wave (Transverse Electromagnetic Wave). My article The TEM Wave; a lost concept is no. 2 in 38,000 Google hits for "tem wave" . R, J, P and C are not alone in having no rudmentary grasp of the TEM Wave. The same applies to all text book writers and relevant university professors, who, with their students, would gain greatly financially if they made any written comment whatsoever on "The Catt Question". The offer says;
"My advice to the Editor is that the first student who succeeds in getting his accredited lecturer or text book writer to write, sign and date meaningful, intelligible comment on "The Catt Question" should receive the first prize of £500 ."
No student in the world, including the poverty stricken Third World, where it represents more than a year's salary, will betray his Professor and his institution by going after the £500, because neither must be tainted with "heresy", even the minor "heresy" of asking for clear, unambiguous teaching on the fundamentals of science. (The reference point is for a theological student in another religion than "Modern Physics" asking for clarification of the role of the Holy Ghost.) This teaching could of course legitimately include a caveat that some details in what is being taught are not fully resolved.
A decade before, this behaviour by all students in the world was predicted in my book "The Catt Anomaly" ;
" Those students who studied, learned, and passed exams in the IEE's static knowledge base developed subject loyalty and also a vested interest in its maintenance and defence against new knowledge. "
For how many more decades will you, as a representative of the left, doggedly hold onto the myth that what strangles our civilisation is Profit Motive, or Capitalism, and continue to shadow box with those who oppose Socialism, or "Social Concern"? Try to apply the doubtful cliche that "we live in an information age", and that the key battle is not even over the suppression of information, but much deeper. It is about the avoidance and suppression of new concepts , which all card-carrying capitalists and socialists will unite to suppress by a process called "interference". Parkinson talks about this when discussing the new nuclear reactor discussion being drowned out by discussion on the new bicycle (unfortunately not tandem) sheds.
The wealth creation potential from Hi Technology would be massive, with world poverty easily ended, but first such as you have to be willing to devote a tiny amount of thought to the subject of how to give hi tec the go-ahead. Ivor Catt 25 April 2007 Continued on 26 April 2007. Yesterday you tentatively taised the question as to how much damage results to society if advances in electromagnetic theory are suppressed. This points to one of a l;arge class of possible evasive tactics, one aaspect of which I have not toched on in writing. If an attempt is made to communicate something which is too far removed from the established Universe of Discourse, the reaosnable response is to reject it. This reasonable reaction fits into the body of analysis outlined in my publications "The rise and fall of bodies of knowledge" , the philosophical extracts from "The Catt Anomaly" and, of course, the quotation at the beginning of "The Clever take the Brilliant" . Also the chapter called "The Grand Inquisitor" in Dostoevsky's novel "The Brothers Karamazov". "The Catt Question" is used for my research for a number of reasons. One is that it excludes some of the classic rationalisation used to evade the issue, that Capitaliam, or Profit Motive is involved in the suppression. Nobody should be under the illusion that a major advance in electromagnetic theory would give financial profit to those closely involved. Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic induction , although leading to profit in the millions of millions of pounds, did not bring direct financial profit to Faraday. Heaviside, the other great man in electromagnetic theory, again creating incalculable wealth, gained virtually nothing financially from his half century dedicated to research into electromagnetic theory. He was determined to not gain financially. Suppression of concepts with massive financial implications are multifarious , for instance by the AIDS Industry. However, for that very reason, they do not have the pristine clarity of "The Catt Question" , which makes it a better research probe. In science, one seeks to limit the number of possible causes of the efffect being studied.. However, questions about the financial significance of the suppression of "Theory C", which is indicated only by "The Catt Question" , is only one of may well-intentioned smokescreens behind which the religion called "Modern Physics", can continue to usurp true 19th century science. As to the financial benefits of "The Catt Question" , they do not exist. As Professor Lynn Trainor wrote, "Modern Physics" is sterile. Claims of financial and other benefit collapse on inspection, for instance in my lecture "The Politics of Knowledge" ; " .... an example being Gribbin's lecture in the November 1995 issue of The Ethical Record [this same journal]. As one who was employed for many years in the U.S.A. and Britain to "design computer chips", I know that, pace Gribbin's assertion, ".... the standard version of quantum theory taught in universities [was never] used .... to design computer chips. .... " - Ivor Catt, inserting "[was never used]" into a quotation from Gribbin A misplaced sense of decorum led the editor of the same journal to leave out my remark about the previous Gribbin lecture. - Ivor Catt, 26apr07.
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