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Demystifying Telsa
byEdward Halerewicz, Jr.
Independent Researcher/Student
AS. Physics, BS. Geography
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I have had a look at the Tesla patent's recently and theyare interesting for a number of reasons. Although not surprisingly, thereis not a single mention of any of the following words: Non-Hertzian,scalar waves, longitudinal waves, free-energy, norsuperluminality. All of these terms have been implied by others (e.g.,Tom Bearden) but not Tesla.
At best, Tesla makes a reference to a short-range "radio" transmission byHertz through a simple electric circuit and to research by Hertzsuggesting that DC power is more efficient than AC power. But neveranywhere are the terms "longitudinal" or "scalar waves" actually used byTesla.
At best, one might incorrectly attribute the motion of DC current asflowing in one direction (longitudinally). But that is a common mistakemade by electrical engineers to this day. Electrons can oscillate butthey do not "flow" in power lines. Current is then carried through theoscillation of the electrons through EM waves. So that may be the originsof the "longitudinal" myth.
Interesting is his wireless power plant which came before his radiopatent. The latter is essentially the power plant concept usingtransverse waves rather than DC current as in the wireless power plant. The wireless power plant idea is also not "free energy". It stillrequires power being produced by electromagnets as in conventional powerplants. Thedifference was that according to Tesla, one could set up the power plantanywhere on the Globe and have any properly-tuned antenna pick it up. Itagain is not free energy, nor scalar energy, nor faster-than-light.
But there is more to the wireless power plant. Tesla knew that it wouldnot operate under normal atmospheric conditions at sea level. Hecorrectly deduced that the atmosphere had a conductive upper layer due tobouncing radio transmissions, his insight was correct. But he assumed itto be cut off at cloud level. Today we call this the Ionosphere.
He also did research in his lab on low-pressure gases and created what wewould now call a "plasma". He realized that unlike normal sea level gaseswhich act like an insulator, this would conduct. So his wireless plantwas to use the Earth as giant conduit of DC power by running a high-voltage antenna in the upper atmosphere via a BALLON and to have a groundleading wire to complete the circuit. Again, this idea is not toofarfetched as itis known today that this is how electrical energy from thunderstorms isdispersed throughout the atmosphere.
The key problem was that the Ionosphere is much higher than he thought. So this plan wouldn't work. The atmosphere is not dense enough for blimpsto float and too dense for satellites to maintain orbit. You simplycannot put a metallic antenna up there and keep it there.
He also had interesting ideas of bouncing radio signals off the Ionospherehaving it to act like a ground-based GPS system (an idea certainly aheadof its time). But his designs were not magic and did not involve freeenergy nor scalar waves. And his wireless power plant by his own designswould not function if not for land wires tethered to the Ionosphere byballoons (something which we know today cannot be practically done).
His radio transmitter was essentially the same as the wireless power plant(a balled antenna placed into a transformer) except that he knew itwouldn't electrically conduct in the air. So he oscillated currenttraveling through the system at specific frequencies so it would broadcastusual transverse EM waves. But with the old re-applied broadcastingsystem, it would be able to hold more voltage than a standard antenna and-- in principle -- a transmitted signal should have more power and be ableto cover a larger distance.
There was one patent that was granted in the same year that SpecialRelativity was published saying that a signal could bounce off theatmosphere faster than the speed-of-light by about 1.57 times, the ironyof the timing. I think this was an error on Tesla's part. 1.57 radsequals 90 degrees. It seems the "superluminal light" that Teslamentioned was just a phased-shift signal caused by the interface of 2wavesfrom the original one emitted.
He assumed that the standing wave which he created (which he calledstationary waves) had the same wavelength as when they were emitted but neglected to account for phase-shifts caused by interference. So itappeared that he calculated speed form the initial signal wavelength withthe phase-shifted interference signal.
He had patents for this to avoidnatural interference in a signal by lightning strikes. Today we mightcall this a "broadband signal" and the cell phone companies would oweTesla royalties.
[StealthSkater note: more analyses by Ed Halerewicz is archived on the Science.htm#Halerewicz page atdoc pdf URL.]
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