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Originally posted by kr0ss
Do you have a fast link on information about the tesla coil?
Thanks for keeping showing info, keep up the good work. i think you're the person who knows more about tesla since himself and lyne.
TESLA SEES EVIDENCE RADIO AND LIGHT ARE SOUND (1934) What, then can light be if it is not a transverse vibration? That was the question he asked himself and set out to find the answer. "I consider this extremely important," said Mr. Tesla. "Light cannot be anything else but a longitudinal disturbance in the ether, involving alternate compressions and rarefactions. In other words, light can be nothing else than a sound wave in the ether."
From: ON THE DISSIPATION OF THE ELECTRICAL ENERGY OF THE HERTZ RESONATOR. (1892) ... The apparatus, oscillator and resonator, being immersed in air, or other discontinuous medium, there occurs — as I have pointed out in the description of my recent experiments before the English and French scientific societies — dissipation of energy by what I think might be appropriately called electric sound waves or sound-waves of electrified air. In Prof. Bjerknes's experiments principally this dissipation in the resonator need be considered, though the sound-waves — if this term be permitted — which emanate from the surfaces at the oscillator may considerably affect the observations made at some distance from the latter. Owing to this dissipation the period of vibration of an air-condenser can not be accurately determined, and I have already drawn attention to this important fact.
From: PIONEER RADIO ENGINEER GIVES VIEWS ON POWER (1932) The assumption of the Maxwellian ether was thought necessary to explain the propagation of light by transverse vibrations, which can only occur in a solid. So fascinating was this theory that even at present it has many supporters, despite the manifest impossibility of a medium, perfectly mobile and tenuous to a degree inconceivable, and yet extremely rigid, like steel. As a result some illusionary ideas have been formed and various phenomena erroneously interpreted.
From: NIKOLA TESLA TELLS OF NEW RADIO THEORIES (1929) .... "When Dr. Heinrich Hertz undertook his experiments from 1887 to 1889 his object was to demonstrate a theory postulating a medium filling all space, called the ether. which was structureless, of inconceivable tenuity and yet solid and possessed of rigidity incomparably greater than that of the hardest steel. He obtained certain results and the whole world acclaimed them as an experimental verification of that cherished theory. But in reality what he observed tended to prove just its fallacy. "I had maintained for many years before that such a medium as supposed could not exist, and that we must rather accept the view that all space is filled with a gaseous substance. On repeating the Hertz experiments with much improved and very powerful apparatus, I satisfied myself that what he had observed was nothing else but effects of longitudinal waves in a gaseous medium, that is to say, waves, propagated by alternate compression and expansion. He had observed waves in the ether much of the nature of sound waves in the air.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
To me he sounds more like a mystic than a scientist. Too many flowery words, and very few facts if any. We can speculate what and how he measured (if he indeed did that), but that's just that - a speculation, whose relation to physical reality is tenuous and non-existent in most cases.
TESLA SEES EVIDENCE RADIO AND LIGHT ARE SOUND (1934) What, then can light be if it is not a transverse vibration? That was the question he asked himself and set out to find the answer. "I consider this extremely important," said Mr. Tesla. "Light cannot be anything else but a longitudinal disturbance in the ether, involving alternate compressions and rarefactions. In other words, light can be nothing else than a sound wave in the ether."
Originally posted by Kalki11
Originally posted by buddhasystem
To me he sounds more like a mystic than a scientist. Too many flowery words, and very few facts if any. We can speculate what and how he measured (if he indeed did that), but that's just that - a speculation, whose relation to physical reality is tenuous and non-existent in most cases.
You can be both mystic and scientist - Newton was an alchemist
Originally posted by Kalki11
Originally posted by buddhasystem
To me he sounds more like a mystic than a scientist. Too many flowery words, and very few facts if any. We can speculate what and how he measured (if he indeed did that), but that's just that - a speculation, whose relation to physical reality is tenuous and non-existent in most cases.
You can be both mystic and scientist - Newton was an alchemist
Originally posted by Ahabstar
One of Tesla's inventions was remote controlled battleships that he twice presented to the Navy and demonstrated them on the Hudson River. They were also capable of remote aiming and firing on targets. Both times the Navy showed great interest but declined.
The UAV's in use today (both the reconnaissance and weaponized versions) are a direct descendent of those inventions.
Tesla had lots of notes and patents that both Apple and IBM had to work around when designing processors. It is hard to say what future inventions may run into Tesla's patents again. The man dabbled in so many things.
Originally posted by mbkennel
TESLA SEES EVIDENCE RADIO AND LIGHT ARE SOUND (1934) What, then can light be if it is not a transverse vibration? That was the question he asked himself and set out to find the answer. "I consider this extremely important," said Mr. Tesla. "Light cannot be anything else but a longitudinal disturbance in the ether, involving alternate compressions and rarefactions. In other words, light can be nothing else than a sound wave in the ether."
By 1934, believing in that crap was utterly ignorant.
Freshman physics tells you why: there is no such thing as polarized sound, but there is polarized light.
Originally posted by TeslaandLyne
Tesla found signals from the planets