Catt's Anomaly

Since 1982, Catt has claimed to have found a fatal flaw in electromagnetism, which he named, with a sense of drama, “The Catt's Anomaly”. It is a sort of “thought experiment” (a gedankenexperiment), in the tradition of twentieth-century physics, where Einstein, as already remembered, devised ingenious physical paradoxes capable of putting into crisis the fundamentals of the emerging quantum theory. Indeed, this is the aim of Catt: to crash the theory of electro magnetism. Actually, he has compared himself to Dingle rather than Einstein, but Catt specifies that his anomaly is easier to comprehend and more important than Dingle's twin paradox. The basic idea of the “thought experiment” of Catt is described in the next section.