“It is necessary for us to assume a universal medium for the transmission of force. This results from the necessity of explaining the action of bodies at a distance. Energy transmitted from the sun to the earth through some very attenuated medium. To show how such medium may be used under certain conditions I may refer to a feat I once accomplished of converting a column of gas into a solid body by the application of electricity in a certain manner. The gas became rigid and vibrated like a steel wire. Scientific men have not noticed the importance of this as yet. Again, I have produced a solid body in the air on the end of a wire. I made a flame which consumed nothing and which showed signs of solidification, for it offered resistance to the passage of bodies through it.” [Nikola Tesla, “Tesla’s Visit To Chicago.” Western Electrician, May 20, 1899.]
“Now, precisely what the ether surrounding the molecules is, wherein it differs from ether in general, can only be conjectured. It cannot differ in density, ether being incompressible; it must, therefore, be under some strain or is motion, and the latter is the most probable. To understand its functions, it would be necessary to have an exact idea of the physical construction of matter, of which, of course, we can only form a mental picture.
But of all the views on nature, the one which assumes one matter and one force, and a perfect uniformity throughout, is the most scientific and most likely to be true. An infinitesimal world, with the molecules and their atoms spinning and moving in orbits, in much the same manner as celestial bodies, carrying with them and probably spinning with them ether, or in other words; carrying with them static charges, seems to my mind the most probable view, and one which, in a plausible manner, accounts for most of the phenomena observed. The spinning of the molecules and their ether sets up the ether tensions or electrostatic strains; the equalization of ether tensions sets up ether motions or electric currents, and the orbital movements produce the effects of electro and permanent magnetism”. Tesla
“The fascination of the electro-magnetic theory of light, advanced by Maxwell and subsequently experimentally investigated by Hertz, was so great that even now, although controverted, the scientific minds are under its sway. This theory supposed the existence of a medium which was solid, yet permitted bodies to pass through it without resistance; tenuous beyond conception, and yet, according to some, one thousand times denser than platinum. According to our conceptions of mechanical principles and ages of experience, such a medium was absolutely impossible. Nevertheless, light was considered essentially a phenomenon bound up in that kind of a medium; namely, one capable of transmitting transverse vibrations like a solid.
“It is true that many scientific minds envisaged the theory of a gaseous ether, but it was rejected again and again because in such a medium longitudinal waves would be propagated with infinite velocity. Lord Kelvin conceived the so-called contractile ether, possessing properties which would result in a finite velocity of longitudinal waves. In 1885, however, an academic dissertation was published by Prof. De Volson Wood, an American, at a Hoboken institution, which dealt with a gaseous ether in which the elasticity, density and specific heat were determined with rare academic elegance. But, so far, everything pertaining to the subject was purely theoretical.”
“What, then, can light be if it is not a transverse vibration?
“I consider this extremely important. 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.”
“This appears clearly if it is first realized that, there being no Maxwellian ether, there can be no transverse oscillation in the medium.”
The Newtonian theory is in error, because it fails entirely in not being able to explain how a small candle can project particles with the same speed as the blazing sun, which has an immensely higher temperature. We have made sure by experiment that light propagates with the same velocity irrespective of the character of the source. Such constancy of velocity can only be explained by assuming that it is dependent solely on the physical properties of the medium, especially density and elastic force.” [Nikola Tesla, “Tesla Sees Evidence Radio and Light Are Sound.” New York Times, April 8, 1934.]
"I have noted with satisfaction the first signs of a change of scientific opinion. The brilliant discovery of the exceptionally “radio-active” substances, radium and polonium, by Mrs. Sklodowska Curie, has likewise afforded me much personal gratification, being an eclatant confirmation of my early experimental demonstrations, of electrified radian streams of primary matter or corpuscular emanations (Electrical Review, New York, 1896-1897), which were then received with incredulity. They have awakened us from the poetical dream of an intangible conveyor of energy, weightless, structureless ether, to the plain, palpable reality of a ponderous medium of coarse particles, or bodily carriers of force. They have led us to a radically new interpretation of the changes and transformations we perceive. Enlightened by this recognition, we cannot say the sun is hot, the moon is cold, the star is bright, for all these might be purely electrical phenomena. If this be the case, then even our conceptions of time and space may have to be modified.“ [Nikola Tesla, “The Transmission of Energy Without Wires As A Means of Furthering Peace." Electrical World and Engineer, January 7, 1905, pp. 21-24.]
“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.
"Up to 1896, however, I did not succeed in obtaining a positive experimental proof of the existence of such a medium. But in that year I brought out a new form of vacuum tube capable of being charged to any desired potential, and operated it with effective pressures of about 4,000,000 volts. I produced cathodic and other rays of transcending intensity. The effects, according to my view, were due to minute particles of matter carrying enormous electrical charges, which, for want of a better name, I designated as matter not further decomposable. Subsequently those particles were called electrons.
"One of the first striking observations made with my tubes was that a purplish glow for several feet around the end of the tube was formed, and I readily ascertained that it was due to the escape of the charges of the particles as soon as they passed out into the air; for it was only in a nearly perfect vacuum that these charges could be confined to them. The coronal discharge proved that there must be a medium besides air in the space, composed of particles immeasurably smaller than those of air, as otherwise such a discharge would not be possible. On further investigation I found that this gas was so light that a volume equal to that of the earth would weigh only about one-twentieth of a pound.
"The velocity of any sound wave depends on a certain ratio between elasticity and density, and for this ether or universal gas the ratio is 800,000,000,000 times greater than for air. This means that the velocity of the sound waves propagated through the ether is about 300,000 times greater than that of the sound waves in air, which travel at approximately 1,085 feet a second. Consequently the speed in ether is 900,000 x 1,085 feet, or 186,000 miles, and that is the speed of light.
"As the waves of this kind are all the more penetrative the shorter they are, I have for years urged the wireless experts to use such waves in order to get good results, but it took a long time before they settled upon this practice.
"Although the world is still skeptical as to the feasibility of my undertaking, I note that some advanced experts, at least, share my views, and I hope that before long wireless power transmission will be as common as transmission by wires.” [Nikola Tesla, Nikola Tesla Tells of New Radio Theories.” New York Herald Tribune, September 22, 1929]
How the Electrician’s Lamp of Aladdin May Construct New Worlds
"What I said in regard to the greatest achievement of the man of science whose mind is bent upon the mastery of the physical universe, was nothing more than what I stated in one of my unpublished addresses, from which I quote:
“According to an adopted theory, every ponderable atom is differentiated from a tenuous fluid, filling all space merely by spinning motion, as a whirl of water in a calm lake. By being set in movement this fluid, the ether, becomes gross matter. Its movement arrested, the primary substance reverts to its normal state. It appears, then, possible for man through harnessed energy of the medium and suitable agencies for starting and stopping ether whirls to cause matter to form and disappear. At his command, almost without effort on his part, old worlds would vanish and new ones would spring into being. He could alter the size of this planet, control its seasons, adjust its distance from the sun, guide it on its eternal journey along any path he might choose, through the depths of the universe. He could make planets collide and produce his suns and stars, his heat and light; he could originate life in all its infinite forms. To cause at will the birth and death of matter would be man’s grandest deed, which would give him the mastery of physical creation, make him fulfill his ultimate destiny.”
"Nothing could be further from my thought than to call wireless telephony around the world “the greatest achievement of humanity” as reported. This is a feat which, however stupefying, can be readily performed by any expert. I have myself constructed a plant for this very purpose. The wireless wonders are only seeming, not results of exceptional skill, as popularly believed. The truth is the electrician has been put in possession of a veritable lamp of Aladdin. All he has to do is to rub it. Now, to rub the lamp of Aladdin is no achievement.
"If you are desirous of hastening the accomplishment of still greater and further reaching wonders you can do no better than by emphatically opposing any measure tending to interfere with the free commercial exploitation of water power and the wireless art. So absolutely does human progress depend on the development of these that the smallest impediment, particularly through the legislative bodies of this country, may set back civilization and the cause of peace for centuries."
[Nikola Tesla, New York, April 19, 1908. ("Mr. Tesla's Vision." New York Times.)]
Tesla discovered that there is anomalous power when the switch is switched on high-charge CC circuits. It measured more power in the circuit than it was put in as the first flow of power traveled through the circuit.
What did he find out? What were your findings, after performing multiple tests and developing devices to clarify the results?
Tesla found atmospheric electrostatic energy in the background, which some call point zero or vacuum energy. This was before modern electron theory, and Nikola Tesla gave these little spheres, which we call electrons, a different name; radiant matter.
Radiant matter was defined as primary spheres, they could not decompose further and their electrostatic energy was too much for their size. As far as Tesla was concerned, the radiant matter was not attached to the atoms, but was flowing freely in the atmosphere, local and cosmic.
Tesla assumed that radioactive matter and electrons were kept separated from each other through an isolating fluid, and according to his tests, nothing could break down this fluid, except a fairly charged circuit at the time it was launched. A spark was produced in the circuit, and “that” is a compression disturbance in the insulating fluid that separates the small spheres of radiant matter according to Tesla. Once an electrostatic energy compression, or a spark, is initiated, the charges/radiant matter can be combined.. it was this phenomenon that the first discoverers of CC electricity witnessed when they turned on the switch. In a fraction of a second, a blue glow would surround the cable (combining charges), and if there was a person too close to the cable, connected to ground, that person would die when grounding the circuit.
Tesla discovered that the longitudinal wave always precedes the cross wave on the cable. Since the longitudinal wave breaks down the isolating fluid, allowing charges to combine, the amount of energy would always be greater than the energy initiated.
While all the electrical engineers were busy looking for a way to remove this longitudinal wave from the circuit, Tesla was busy studying this force.
Tesla discovered an immense amount of power everywhere, but it wasn't available unless a compression shock was initiated. After which, the insulating fluid that separates the charge/energy would break.
A heavy load placed on a spark would be similar to a big push against a structure. Tesla probably pondered the results of his 10-pound oscillator on the structures near his laboratory in New York. Just 10 pounds can take down a full block.
The same should apply to radioactive matter, provided Tesla can find resonance frequency.
Tesla had a device that would eventually increase the exact frequency of buildings and their surroundings.
The oscillator worked by recycling the most frequent frequency through the circuit. Time by time, the same frequency would become more frequent, like a microphone that is being recharged. Everything at that frequency would fall apart.
Tesla thought that if he could take that "spark" that had exceptional voltage and current and replace it with weak voltage and current, but using the resonant frequency of the isolating fluid, he could create a dynamic in which very little energy would harness extraordinary energies. energy. Electricity would be created and it would be available to take it off the circuit. This is what almost everyone calls "free energy". Of course it's not free, but it's creating orders of magnitude more energy than it's used to create that energy.
Tesla knew it was “a spark” that broke the insulating fluid that prevents all these exceptional charges from combining, and defined “a spark” as a form of compression/longitudinal electrostatic energy. Their only question, at this point, was to find the frequency that would initiate the decomposition of the insulating fluid on a larger scale. To that end, Tesla developed two wheels that moved each other, each with between 60 and 100 tungsten passers at equal distances, and arranged them so that the passers would spark once when the passers of each wheel were close enough to start a spark. Speeds on the two wheels were adjustable so Tesla could withstand these sparks up to 2 million a second, or more.
Tesla disposed a small ground-connected driver plate next to the two wheels spinning in opposite motion and measured the voltage of the small ground-linked metal plate.
The small plate charged at exceptional levels when the spark was about 1 million per second, and this result was the basis of Tela's radiant energy patent. It's all so simple, but no one understands it.
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