monolithThu, May 8, 2008 Yes, that technology back then was so far out people considered it as magic, but seriously - how far out can it really be now? My god, a hundred years has past!
From my humble knowledge of electricity and from extensive reading of Tesla's papers, I understood that Tesla made very few experiments, since he designed and run things with his powerful imagination. This is a real problem, because he made very little notes, as he kept things in his head. But what about NOW? Consider this:
As I understood, Tesla's tower was meant to pulse the ionosphere in such way that pretty soon the whole ionosphere starts pulsing in some resonant frequencies, kind of like constantly disturbing the water's surface with some stick until all water surface starts to wave in that frequency. To my mind, there's nothing unusual about this idea: one just has to find the natural resonant frequency of that surface and continuously keep running the disturbance until it catches up trough all medium.
But what kind of electric waves? Tesla speaks about "longitudinal rather then transversal waves". What could this be? From what angle did he look at the system? I only know that he was in love with spheric coordinating system and considered sphere to be the perfect body in nature (hence his ashes are in golden sphere) .
And really, no experiment? Couldn't we make an experiment such as this:
Where silver ball is a laaaarge ball covered with, say, aluminum foil and then charged with static electricity that imitates ionosphere, black dot represents an iron ball that would be the pulse source that we would charge with various phase AC current and red dots would be points where we would measure static electricity. If we feed this measurements to the computer man, wouldn't we find out the resonant frequency of that stupid ball in DAYS? And then, in Tesla's words:
If I know how to toss a rock ten meters away, don't I just need to add more strength to my technique and toss it a hundred meters?
My only fear is that, when somebody finally does this "world power station", man in black will show up and kill him and everybody he knows including his neighbors, for this cannot be so complicated (even I could come up with a starting point or two!) and a hundred years has passed, man, a hundred years and NOBODY did ANYTHING!
And where are we now from Tesla's thought? My favorite quote:
We are automata entirely controlled by the forces of the medium being tossed about like corks on the surface of the water, but mistaking the resultant of the impulses from the outside for free will.
The man was considering to duplicate a HUMAN! Not some AI for children to toy with, but a fully developed machine that would replace us.
We all thinker with silicon because we all need prosthetics for our brain and even then we cannot measure with Tesla on a bad day.
Yes, that technology back then was so far out people considered it as magic, but seriously - how far out can it really be now? My god, a hundred years has past!
From my humble knowledge of electricity and from extensive reading of Tesla's papers, I understood that Tesla made very few experiments, since he designed and run things with his powerful imagination. This is a real problem, because he made very little notes, as he kept things in his head. But what about NOW? Consider this:
As I understood, Tesla's tower was meant to pulse the ionosphere in such way that pretty soon the whole ionosphere starts pulsing in some resonant frequencies, kind of like constantly disturbing the water's surface with some stick until all water surface starts to wave in that frequency. To my mind, there's nothing unusual about this idea: one just has to find the natural resonant frequency of that surface and continuously keep running the disturbance until it catches up trough all medium.
But what kind of electric waves? Tesla speaks about "longitudinal rather then transversal waves". What could this be? From what angle did he look at the system? I only know that he was in love with spheric coordinating system and considered sphere to be the perfect body in nature (hence his ashes are in golden sphere) .
And really, no experiment? Couldn't we make an experiment such as this:
Where silver ball is a laaaarge ball covered with, say, aluminum foil and then charged with static electricity that imitates ionosphere, black dot represents an iron ball that would be the pulse source that we would charge with various phase AC current and red dots would be points where we would measure static electricity. If we feed this measurements to the computer man, wouldn't we find out the resonant frequency of that stupid ball in DAYS? And then, in Tesla's words:
My only fear is that, when somebody finally does this "world power station", man in black will show up and kill him and everybody he knows including his neighbors, for this cannot be so complicated (even I could come up with a starting point or two!) and a hundred years has passed, man, a hundred years and NOBODY did ANYTHING!
And where are we now from Tesla's thought? My favorite quote:
The man was considering to duplicate a HUMAN! Not some AI for children to toy with, but a fully developed machine that would replace us.
We all thinker with silicon because we all need prosthetics for our brain and even then we cannot measure with Tesla on a bad day.