Content: He never meant something from nothing. Just like solar power isn't something from nothing. There was a time that hydroelectric and geothermal power were thought of as free.
The thing people are skeptical about is his claim of harnessing the aether for the production of power.(look at the space tether or zero-point energy) The creation of the hydroelectric plant is not actually free even though the energy just keeps coming practically from nowhere. (but actually from the water or in other cases from the aether or potentials or fields)
So free energy is just a concept of getting a great deal of untapped energy from a novel or unexpected source.
More specifically, receiving more total output of energy than the total input is what is being referred to.
Creation time: Jul 10, 2013 04:51 PM PDT
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From “Man’s Greatest Achievement”
"There manifests itself in the fully developed being , Man, a desire mysterious, inscrutable and irresistible: to imitate nature, to create, to work himself the wonders he perceives.... Long ago he recognized that all perceptible matter comes from a primary substance, or tenuity beyond conception, filling all space, the Akasha or luminiferous ether, which is acted upon by the life giving Prana or creative force, calling into existence, in never ending cycles all things and phenomena. The primary substance, thrown into infinitesimal whirls of prodigious velocity, becomes gross matter; the force subsiding, the motion ceases and matter disappears, reverting to the primary substance." -Nikola Tesla
This conceptualization of aether matches Maxwell’s statements about aether behaving as “Wheels and pulleys” and furthermore supports the Thompson (Lord Kelvin) vortex ring model of the atom which is now being re-investigated through inviscid fluid dynamics. (See Ross Anderson and Robert Brady of Cambridge)
Excerpt from Tesla’s prepared statement for his 81st birthday (July 10, 1937)
“Only the existence of a field of force can account for the
motions of the bodies as observed, and its assumption
dispenses with space curvature. All literature on this
subject is futile and destined to oblivion. So are all
attempts to explain the workings of the universe without
recognizing the existence of the ether and the
indispensable function it plays in the phenomena.
My second discovery was of a physical truth of the greatest
importance. As I have searched the entire scientific
records in more than a half dozen languages for a long time
without finding the least anticipation, I consider myself
the original discoverer of this truth, which can be
expressed by the statement: There is no energy in matter
other than that received from the environment.” – Nikola Tesla
Once again this indicates a vortex model of matter in which the energy of an atom is like the energy of a tornado: a localization of the energy of a larger system.
Various other quotes attributed to Tesla (of less-reliable / unknown source):
"A good example for such an interaction becomes apparent in gravitation, which should rather be named, universal compression. I think the material bodies do not gravitate between each other but it is the ether that makes one material body to press to another."
"We wrongly call this phenomenon gravitation."
"We can also feel ether's reaction when sudden acceleration or braking."
"The stars, planets and all the universe appeared from the ether when some part of it, due to certain reasons, became less dense."
"It can be compared with formation of blebs [air bubbles] in boiling water although such a comparison is only rough. The ether tries to return itself to its initial state by compressing our world, but intrinsic electric charge within material the world substance obstructs this. It is similar to that when the water compresses blebs [air bubbles] filled with hot water steam. Until the steam does get cold the water is unable to compress the bleb. With time, having lost the intrinsic electric charge, our world will be compressed with the ether and is going to turn into ether."
"Having come out of the ether once - so it will go back into the ether."
Creation time: Feb 03, 2017 05:27 PM PST
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For the same reason Nobel Laureate after Nobel Laureate directly called the theory nonsense: Constancy.
Literally hundreds of well respected and world renowned scientists were appalled by the irrationality of special relativity and even gathered together to protest it but…
NOT time dilation and length contraction which can be found in Lorentz’s earlier theory!
Basically every effect that is in Einstein’s theory exists in Lorentz’s earlier theory and they all had no problem with those effects in Lorentz’s theory.
The difference is that the exact same maths described a variety of perspective illusions in Lorentz’s theory but upon removal of the aether, these illusions became presumed to be basic facts of reality with no mechanism.
(That’s right, Lorentz invented the math to describe a real world mechanism and Einstein removed all causal mechanics the math described but kept the math)
Here’s just a couple Nobel prize winners who thought the theory was magical thinking:
Albert Michelson: The first American Nobel Prize winner.
Robert Millikan: The second American Nobel Laureate
(add a few jackass nobel prize winners that later supported national socialism but that says nothing of their technical prowess, only their morals)
But then let’s add:
Ernest Rutherford: The most most responsible for actual technology behind the atomic bomb openly ridiculed it.
Louis Essen: inventor of the atomic clock, said we are teaching kids to favor dogma over science.
Ernst Mach: Sometimes credited with some of the ideas Einstein used said he didn’t find it to be an honor to be a part of “this or any church”
….and SOOOOO many more.
Unfortunately, it’s the politics of truth and “Alternative Facts” (Relativity was the climate change issue of WWII)
The issue is the extremity of the politics at the time between WWI and WWII and the bouts of counter propaganda in which Einstein became the puck in an international hockey game.
If you hated Nazis you had to love Einstein. If you didn’t like Einstein’s theories, you were labelled a Nazi sympathizer. Politics, racism and all the garbage of the human soul was mixed inextricably with science.
In the face of all the human emotion, rational consideration of mechanics was not just a back-seat, but a non-considerations and it’s still back-seat today at the very best.
Even the acceptance of Einstein over Lorentz and Poincare was because of a rivalry between France and Germany and there were issues of journals not publishing Poincare’s updates which were before Einstein’s papers and would have established precedence.
“Bah, tell me more about the actual science! What’s this illusion you speak of?”
Lorentz’s Ether Theory (LET) was not just mathematically equivalent, it was the undeniable precursor to Special Relativity (SR). It was Lorentz’s Kinematics that were directly imported by Einstein, with Poincare’s electromagnetism instead of Einstein’s.
The difference is that in LET, the contraction was real and the time change was real while the constancy of light speed and relative simultaneity were just a mathematical illusion. Additionally, the twins paradox could not occur in LET because by relative perspective, some observers could seem time contracted and length dilated (as another perspective illusion)
All these details were removed by SR when the aether was removed. Later writings of Einstein reveal that he personally didn’t initially understand the illusory aspects of Lorentz’s theory and this led to him believe that the aether (which caused the effect that required the math to describe) was not necessary.
Later in life, however, Einstein repeatedly denounced “constancy” and gave a speech 15 years after special relativity about the absolute necessity of aether but nobody listened or it was intentionally covered up.
The illusion-versus-reality difference between the two theories is described in detail below. It requires a few diagrams etc to understand this subtle difference in interpretation which is not reflected in the basic maths.
“Space without ether is unthinkable…” - Einstein (1920), University of Leiden.
Creation time: Mar 13, 2017 12:01 AM PDT
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The entire world works in backlashes.
Or, more correctly, I should say in waves.
Tesla was a fantastic scientist and showman who earned world fame to rival Edison’s but then after his death he was unrecognized because of that extreme genius and forgotten. Then he was rediscovered and his extreme genius was recognized again, now the backlash is happening yet again.
When someone’s genius and personality are that great, it quite literally makes waves.
It happened with Einstein too and it happens with politicians and movie stars to some extent as well. The more extreme the greatness, the more extreme the wave and the longer it takes to level off.
…but lets look at some of the “social wave mechanics” in the case of Tesla.
He was literally able to make lightning blast from his hands in front of crowds of people. What a god-like looking power to have! It boggles and numbs the 19th century mindset. He really did invent a vast number of wondrous things that single handedly ushered in a new era for mankind. He invented so much that people were able to claim credit and steal much of his work without diminishing the vastness of it.
He invented radio and Marconi basically stole it. (I should know theft with my last name belonging to my relative who was the true inventor of the telephone.) Tesla discovered x rays as well. He had a remote control boat he showed off in 1898 at an Electrical exposition that had people basically accusing him of witchcraft.
Then by later life, he was claiming to have communicated with people from other planets, and to have invented a death ray that could end all war.
His personality, claims, and accomplishments were controversial, divisive, unbelievable and most of all… dangerous. He became the prototype for the mad scientists we see in all the black and white cartoons.
Eventually, to those without personal experience, the stories about him were nothing more than the rumors of the chupacabra they also often heard spoken with the same awe. The stories smacked of outright lies or worse, the evil charades of a con man duping the masses.
Enter the Trump family (Yes, president Trump’s family) and The Bomb.
Once he died on January 7th 1943, his belongings were all confiscated by the Office of Alien property which had no right to it since he was a naturalized citizen. That was then handed over to Dr. John G. Trump, an electrical engineer with the National Defense Research Committee of the Office of Scientific Research and Development who dismissed his work as speculative and unworkable. But somehow, only a portion of his papers that were confiscated (and reportedly of vital interest to the government) have ever been released to his family.
PBS: Master of Lightning: The Missing Papers
Just a bit over a year later on August 6th 1945 The first nuclear bomb was dropped after the most successful widespread secrecy operation ever conducted: The Manhattan Project. A project of secrecy around technology was well under way during these events.
Are these things just coincidence? Is Tesla’s rapid disappearance from history itself just an accident?
I tend to believe its a bit of all the factors.
The crest of the next wave.
The resurgence of his popularity was well deserved but all trends, once they reach a tipping point, bring in people who are fad followers and they become the majority very quickly thereafter. They end up being very bad representatives of the initial movement. Whether it was the people who wanted to know what a typical bohemian kept in their medicine cabinet to emulate, or a male flower child looking for all those loose women, all movements that start with something valuable become absolutely overrun with bandwagoneers.
If it’s extreme enough it can even spawn cults. The hippie revolution had a number of them and it seems Tesla may have something edging pretty close to it:
So it’s more than reasonable that there’s a backlash to the extremes of the hippie revolution, the extremes of the greed culture of the 90s, or the extremity of claims about Tesla. Some of the worst are associations with flat earth.
The backlash.
So, I personally have to ask myself, as a history researcher, is it possible that there is technology related to Tesla that was hushed during WWII and my answer is: “I have little doubt that is true” and then as a researcher in the history of physics I have to again ask, is it possible that there’s still good reason, today, for a government to play him down for the sake of secrecy and my answer is “Surprisingly yes, since aether theory is at the cusp of a resurgence via reinterpretation of pilot wave via fluid dynamics and a convergence of all the various theories like QFT and string theory on that reinterpretation.”
But then I must also ask, are claims about Tesla are all reasonable and the answer is a resounding No. He was not a space alien any more than I am. He didn’t possess god-like powers. (and he certainly didn’t support a flat earth!) He was just amazingly ahead of other humans. It happens.
Do people use his name to suggest every sort of nonsensical magical idea? Yes. Do cranks with zero understanding of physics and technology claim Tesla tech? Yes. Do hucksters and charlatans selling magic water to the vulnerable attach his name to everything? Yes.
Are people rightfully turned off by this surge in popularity? Yes.
Is it fair or right for people to start degrading him again just because of the bad behaviors of people surrounding this resurgence? No.
Was he less of an amazing figure in history and technology just because of crank claims him as their inspiration? No!
…unfortunately the bulk of humans work more upon a basis of opinion and social factors than anything real or meaningful. It’s just who we are.
Creation time: May 03, 2019 04:46 PM PDT