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Originally posted by wildespace
Originally posted by poet1b
If you think you understand the theory of relativity...
It's quite enough that it has been supported by numerous experiments. Science isn't about complete and absolute understanding of everything, it's about theories and evidence that supports those theories.
Without accounting for relativity and quantum physics, we wouldn't be able to explore space, build computers, and do many other things that we start taking for granted in the modern world.
Are you a follower of the Electric Universe theory? If so, that explains your mindset.
The Electric Universe
The Electric Universe theory highlights the importance of electricity throughout the Universe. It is based on the recognition of existing natural electrical phenomena (eg. lightning, St Elmo's Fire), and the known properties of plasmas (ionized "gases") which make up 99.999% of the visible universe, and react strongly to electro-magnetic fields. Much of the material considered by the Electric Universe is peer-reviewed, but not all (see Speculative Theories, below).
The Electric Universe Theory Debunked
What was this theory and where on earth did it come from? According to the website www.electricuniverse.info the “Electric Universe theory highlights the importance of electricity throughout the Universe. It is based on the recognition of existing natural electrical phenomena (eg. lightning, St Elmo’s Fire), and the known properties of plasmas (ionized “gases”) which make up 99.999% of the visible universe, and react strongly to electro-magnetic fields.” It goes on to state “Electricity is common throughout the universe, generated by all cosmic plasma as it moves through magnetic fields. Peer reviewed papers describe electricity in the Sun, and associated with the interplanetary medium (solar wind), planets and their satellites, comets, in interstellar space, other stars, and intergalactic space.” Well that sounds pretty convincing, doesn’t it?
The solar wind is caused by an electric field?
In physics an electric field applied to charged particles cause them to accelerate. The Electric universe theory says that the solar wind is the result of such a field, and the Sun is electric, not fusion based.
Maxwell’s theory of acceleration, however, talks about a time variable field, not a fixed one, and what’s more the solar wind contains both positive and negatively charged ions (protons and electrons mainly). An electric sun would be positively charged and all the negatively charged electrons would be attached to it – not be pushed out from the Sun on a solar wind. This fact proves the Sun is not electric.
Originally posted by poet1b
Theoretical science has gone nowhere for the last hundred years, and mathatics has gone nowhere for the last 500 years.
Computers and the exploration of space has a great more reliance on the work of Tesla,
Originally posted by poet1b
reply to post by FatherLukeDuke
Have any links that show Tesla based his work on Maxwell?
Or was it Franklin?
Originally posted by poet1b
reply to post by OccamAssassin
Wrong.
Maxwells theorie held other engineers back. Tesla ignored Maxwells work, and changed the world.
Read Tesla's bio.
Originally posted by poet1b
reply to post by OccamAssassin
Wrong.
Maxwells theorie held other engineers back. Tesla ignored Maxwells work, and changed the world.
Read Tesla's bio.
Maxwell's equations are a set of partial differential equations that, together with the Lorentz force law, form the foundation of classical electrodynamics, classical optics, and electric circuits. These fields in turn underlie modern electrical and communications technologies.
No. Wardenclyffe was nothing like HAARP and looked nothing like HAARP. It was a very large Tesla coil, not a phased array.
If you have seen pictures of his Wardencliffe tower then you would be looking at what could have been the precursor to HAARP in a miniaturized version.
The Hertz wave theory of wireless transmission may be kept up for a while, but I do not hesitate to say that in a short time it will be recognized as one of the most remarkable and inexplicable aberrations of the scientific mind which has ever been recorded in history.
www.tfcbooks.com...
Granted even that all difficulties were successfully overcome, the field of application was manifestly circumscribed. Heliographic signals had been flashed to a distance of 200 miles, but to produce Hertzian rays of such penetrating power as those of light appeared next to impossible, the frequencies obtainable through electrical discharges being necessarily of a much lower order. The rectilinear propagation would limit the action on the receiver to the extent of the horizon and entail interference of obstacles in a straight line joining the stations. The transmission would be subject to the caprices of the air and, chief of all drawbacks, the intensity of disturbances of this character would rapidly diminish with distance.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Plasma is claimed to be the source of gravity, basically explained in a nutshell.
Obviously Tesla believed in wireless transmission, he invented it, he just didn't think Hertz concept of how it worked was correct. Tesla's understanding was probably better.
He did not believe that electromagnetic radiation (hertzian waves) would be useful for communications or power transmission.
Having now described my invention, what I claim is—
1. The improvement in the art of controlling the movements and operation of a vessel or vehicle herein described, which consist in producing waves or disturbances which are conveyed to the vessel by the natural media, actuating thereby suitable apparatus on the vessel and effecting the control of the propelling-engine, the steering and other mechanism by the operation of the said apparatus, as set forth.
I think Tesla understood electricity and magnetism far better than anyone. He might not have been able to express it in writing, but he certainly did in the lab.
That doesn't change the fact that Tesla was completely wrong about electromagnetic radiation.
And to this very day, use of the Earth in power transmission is critical to the process.
Yes. I don't see how it applies though. Perhaps "20/20 hindsight" would be better. We know a lot more about electromagnetic radiation now than anyone did in Tesla's day. We know he was wrong about it. We know it can be used for long distance communication. We know it can be used for power transmission. We know that Tesla was using it no matter how much he denied it.
Are you familiar with the expression "arm chair quarterback."