The Catt Question Background
| Article | |
|---|---|
| Title | The Catt Question Background |
| Author(s) | Harry Hamlin Ricker |
| Published in | Beyond Mainstream |
| Date | 2021-06-05 |
| Subject area | Physics |
| Topics | electricity, electromagnetism |
Read online | Read the full article |
Archived copy | Archived version |
| Retrieved | 2026-07-23 |
"The Catt Question Background" is an article by Harry Hamlin Ricker published on 5 June 2021 on Beyond Mainstream. Ricker argues that the difficulty most readers have with the Catt Question is not a difficulty with the question itself but with the word electricity, which he holds has never been given a clear and consistent definition in physical science.
He traces the confusion to the term being used for two quite different concepts — a property of fundamental particles on one hand, and something else again in the treatment that follows Oersted's discovery — and contends that no meaningful discussion of the Catt Question is possible until that ambiguity is resolved.