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Breaking Through Editorial:
Nikola Tesla Man of Three Centuries
By Eugene F. Mallove
Near midnight between the 9th and 10th of July,
1856, Nikola Tesla was born of Serbian parents in Croatia near Bosnia,
an area that has known centuries of turmoil. From such a humble
beginning came a Man Out of Time almost literally
the title of Margaret Cheney's 1981 biography of Tesla. The eccentric
genius who would grow from this infant was a man rooted in the nineteenth
century's scientific revolutions of electricity and magnetism. His
electrical creations would transform the twentieth century beyond
recognition widely distributed electricity that would dominate
all aspects of life and a society pervaded by global "etheric
wave" communication, radio, and television. Nikola Tesla's
legacy has not yet come to full bloom, but it surely will in this,
the twenty-first century, which (one hopes!) will be much less recognizable
to twentieth centurians than the twentieth century was to be to
the Victorians.
We celebrate Nikola Tesla in this Infinite Energy,
in large part by reprinting, with annotation and commentary, his
astonishing prescient article, "The Problem of Increasing Human
Energy." It appeared in the June 1900 issue of Century
magazine, thus nicely demarcating with Tesla's predictions the two
centuries of his living reign. We offer brief eclectic tours
of some of the better-known Tesla biographies, and we touch on a
notable Tesla video documentary/dramatization.
Tesla had come to the U.S. in 1884 with a letter of
introduction to Thomas Edison from Charles Batchelor, the
British engineer who ran the Continental Edison Company in Europe.
The two towering figures, Edison and Tesla, had a very brief working
relationship in America, but their manners, personalities, and approaches
to commercializing the generation and transmission of the electrical
"fluid" clashed dramatically. Edison would remain stuck
with the problematic direct-current paradigm, while Tesla had long
envisioned his polyphase alternating current approach, which he
invented down to its many particulars. Tesla won, of course, yet
in 1943 he died in the New York hotel room in which he lived, in
debt and in abject poverty. He was a visionary scientific genius,
not a savvy, cut-throat businessman. To this day, Tesla does not
receive the credit he deserves. Though he was the true discoverer
of the basic methods of radio communication (as later formally adjudicated
in a U.S. Supreme Court decision following Tesla's death), popular
history grants the honor of radio's invention to Marconi, who had
used Tesla's ideas. Tesla knew of that interference at the time,
but he just smiled; he was too immersed in his other overarching
plans for energy and communication.
The U.S. Smithsonian Institution to this day does
not properly credit Tesla for the invention of radio! Tesla these
days is not only "mystified" and mythologized by hordes
of devotees, he is also maligned by the scientific bigots of CSICOP
(the so-called Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims
of the Paranormal). The CSICOPers cannot abide Tesla's visions of
the possible, so stuck are they in their archaic textbook understanding
of basic physics, from which they refuse to budge.
The nineteenth century Tesla's dashing persona and
evident genius, his over six-foot tall, thin frame, his dark complexion,
and fluency in many languages endeared him to many movers and shakers,
artists, writers, and musicians of that period among them
J. Pierpont Morgan (a significant investor in the Edison Electric
Light Company), George Westinghouse (who would make his fortunes
from Tesla's towering intellect), John D. Rockefeller, author Mark
Twain (Samuel Clemens), and French Actress Sarah Bernhardt. And
there was admirer Katherine Johnson, whose husband Robert Underwood
Johnson ran Century magazine the venue of Tesla's 1900 exposition
on the future of energy and many other technologies, including robotics
and futuristic military machines.
It is a little over a century after much of our world
began to have access to widely distributed electric power, thanks
to the pioneering by Nikola Tesla of polyphase alternating current
the basic methods of its generation and transmission. This began
in 1896 with the generation of electricity at Niagara Falls and
its transmission to other parts of New York. New York City quickly
became the intense luminous beacon that it remains today. But Tesla's
plans were far greater than could be contained in copper wires.
He wanted to launch a world of free energy one in which electric
power could be tapped by anyone at any point on Earth via "wireless
transmission." Despite that great genius's mostly unrecognized
impact on civilization, an era of free energy did not break out
in the twentieth century, though it might have; Tesla's hopes were
put on hold.
Tesla's famous 187-foot Wardenclyffe transmission
tower on Long Island was erected in 1903. Its' ostensible purpose
had been for global radio communication, but Tesla's driving ambition
for it had been to launch wireless power transmission as well. This
was not to be, whether or not his technical ideas had merit
and in this case they may have been flawed. Financial reversals
and other problems led to the tower's destruction; it was sold for
scrap in 1917. But the quest for free energy did not die. Just as
there had been many failed aeronautical pioneers toward the latter
part of the nineteenth century, so there were to be many failures
in the quest for free energy and some near-miss successes
throughout the twentieth century.
A little less than one hundred years ago, two bicycle
mechanics showed that the scientific establishment was dead-wrong
about the "impossibility" of heavier-than-air flight.
Tesla was one of those in 1900 who believed that the airplane was
coming and soon. He was right. On December 17, 1903, Orville
and Wilbur Wright burned their names into history at Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina, though it took five more years not until late
1908 with a flight demonstration at Ft. Myer, Virginia for
the Establishment's media organs even to acknowledge that the Wrights
had pulled off a scientific and technological coup. Even the great
Tesla did not know of the Wrights' accomplishment at the time (1903).
Following the Wrights' seminal achievement, the next hundred years
witnessed a revolution in transportation and commerce. Then astronautics
built upon aviation with explosive technology giving rise
to communications satellites, weather satellites, and voyages to
the Moon, planets, asteroids, and comets. Space exploration has
been severely hampered, to be sure, by the lack of an energy source
much more potent than chemical combustion, and spaceflight has been
saddled by a restrictive physics that is built on the shakiest of
foundations. That is about to change, with a revolution in electricity
that has a lot to do with the fundamental physics of the universe.
Though we have seen many dead-end detours on the road
to free energy, it may be that 2003 will mark the beginning of a
turning point in that journey. Victory is long overdue. Today, many
solid strands of research in free energy are coming together, and
the final triumph of limitless, clean energy is very much within
reach. In fact, sad to say, the primary ingredient holding back
a raging breakout of a new energy revolution is R&D money
in the right hands, of course! Foremost among the hopeful developments
in new energy is the recognition of the work of Tesla himself, though
free energy will not come in the way the great inventor had planned
it. Most likely there will be no generalized wireless transmission
of power, but there will be free energy tapped from the vacuum state
the aether at countless distributed sites with compact free
energy devices. Thus, the inevitable end of the power-grid
just as Tesla had envisioned. This is in the process of happening
as legitimate dynamic aether physics is recovered by more and more
investigators from the impending wreckage of Einsteinian relativity
and its fiction of the "nothingness" of so-called "space-time."
Let us review where things stand on the free energy
front in early 2003. A good beginning is to examine our newly posted
New Energy Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQ) on www.infinite-energy.com, with its highlighted important
scientific links. Here is a brief summary:
We have many times drawn the attention of those readers
with a more mathematical physics bent to the compendious work of
Dr. Paulo and Alexandra Correa on their www.aetherometry.com
website. There one will find at least one coherent view of
precisely how matters went astray, beginning in the nineteenth century,
and continuing with the many limiting fictions under which physics
still labors. If one does not care to probe the details, but wants
to see prototype plasma power and self-sustaining aether motors
in operation, there is now a 100-minute DVD, "From Plasma Power
to the Aether Motor," which can be ordered. Dr. Harold Aspden,
an aether theorist himself and former director of IBM's European
patent operations (from 1963 to 1983), introduces the Correa technology
by describing how electromagnetic theory went astray as early as
the 1820s! Seeing the DVD may not exactly bring one to "believing,"
but it is the next best thing. Testimonials based on hands-on testing
and familiarity with the physics and its discoverers, is that this
technology is for real there is no hanky panky involved, no
concealed batteries, etc. This is the first time in the quest for
free energy from the aether that such pedigreed devices have appeared
in accessible public view.
No less than three types of free energy technologies
are displayed in operation and testing:
1) The mid-1990s patented pulsed plasma power Pulsed
Abnormal Glow discharge (PAGD) reactor devices, powering
spinner motors and spinning up flywheels (50 watts of DC electricity
in, 500 watts mechanical power out);
2) Patent-applied-for self-running Aether/ORgone
Motor-Converter technology, stemming from the work of Nikola Tesla
and Wilhelm Reich, but going far beyond motors that are
driven by aether energy captured with "orgone accumulators,"
by vacor (evacuated) glass tubes, and even by ungrounded human
bodies, and
3) Stirling motors driven not by fuel combustion,
but operated anomalously from a hybrid orgone accumulator chamber
during both daylight and deep into a cold Canadian night. The
pioneering documentary is filled with simple demonstrations of
massfree aether energy from the vacuum, the ground, the
atmosphere, and human bodies. This illustrates the existence of
an energy realm which has heretofore been both ignored and grossly
misunderstood. Yes, there is an intimate connection between physics
and biophysics as some of the more effective complementary
medical approaches have long suggested. "Qi" energy
is not just some "New Age" term; it's for real, and
its physics can increasingly be understood and measured
qualitatively and quantitatively.
This is most important, for what is more necessary
than a proper understanding of the true boundary conditions of biological
systems our existence? The current paradigm suggests this
biology to be conceptually "exclusively biochemistry."
But is there really any mainstream research that confirms "biophysical
energy" an energy that attends and augments and interpenetrates
"biochemistry"? There are significant controlled studies
that substantiate the effectiveness of complementary medicine modalities,
such as acupuncture and "healing touch" type therapies.
However, we are increasingly seeing Western medicine's technological
imaging and sensing devices being applied to prove that bodily effects
without conventional biological explanation are occurring. To cite
one of the best examples we have encountered, please examine: "Evaluation
of Acupuncture Using fMRI and Ultrasonic Imaging," by Chang
Sok So (Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology), Joie P. Jones and David
D. Kidney (Department of Radiological Sciences), University of California
at Irvine; Takuso Saito, Tokyo Institute of Technology, a paper
given at the Society for Scientific Exploration in June 2001 in
LaJolla, California. But much of this is also published by the authors
in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Vol.
95, 1998, pp. 2670-2673. In this study, it is conclusively shown
with scientifically blinded examination using ultrasonic and other
stimulation of an acupuncture point in the foot of a subject (many
subjects were used): 1) The acupuncture point on the foot, known
by acupuncturists to help vision when stimulated, resulted in nearly
instantaneous production of activation in the visual cortex of the
brain of the subject a completely reproducible effect that
could be toggled off and on; 2) The acupuncture point was found
to be highly localized (within a fraction of a millimeter); and
3) The speed of transmission of the information from the foot acupuncture
point to the visual cortex of the brain, as measured by fMRI, was
at least 1,000 times any known nerve transmission speed! Dr. Joie
P. Jones explained, at a public lecture in June 2001 (Society for
Scientific exploration Meeting, LaJolla, California), that because
the functional MRI (fMRI) minimum time localization of measurement
is about 80-microseconds, the actual transmission speed to the brain
might be faster than even this astounding 1,000-fold figure. What
kind of "only biochemistry" can do that?
A footnote, which illuminates the sad state of mainstream
science today: The group's technical paper, which is obviously of
overarching importance, was submitted to Science, and then
Nature, which both rejected without review according
to Dr. Joie Jones. Subsequently, five sympathetic Nobel laureates
in the biological sciences, who were impressed with the paper, urged
Nature to reconsider its decision. It did not. Therefore,
the paper had to be published in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, which does not censor the work of its participants.
Thus, a fundamental finding about the human body's functioning,
and the medical effectiveness of a disparaged technique acupuncture
has been submerged, at least for now. Infinite Energy is
bringing it to you.
Now for "cold fusion," the indisputably
verified and most widely validated of the emerging free energy
technologies. The field is more properly referred to as LENR
Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions. In effect, the science has become
modern alchemy. The transmutation of heavy elements is shown to
occur with remarkable ease in certain systems. Examine www.lenr-canr.org
for the latest downloadable technical papers in this area. Though
LENR technological energy devices appeared to be imminent in the
mid-1990s, various materials problems with thin film metal
coatings in electrochemical cells produced a severe setback. Now
new gas type "catalytic fusion" cells are showing
much greater promise. Furthermore, the offshoot from cold fusion
launched by Dr. Randell Mills in 1991, a kind of new hydrogen physics
revision of modern quantum mechanics, appears to be blossoming at
the well-funded BlackLight Power Corporation in New Jersey (see
www.blacklightpower.com).
Dr. Mills and his colleagues have just had an article published
by the American Journal of Physics (December 2002)
a sign of the establishment cracking perhaps? The most noteworthy
accomplishment of BlackLight Power is the highly reproducible
excess heat phenomenon in gas plasma systems much more reproducible,
and predictable by gas component selection criteria, than LENR phenomena.
Though Randell Mills on the one hand and the cold
fusion/LENR community on the other are convinced of their separate
theoretical justifications, neither should be so self-satisfied
and secure. An underlying new physics of some kind almost certainly
straddles the whole of anomalous energy the new energy field.
In "Eclectic Observer" in our last issue,
we highlighted some marvelous developments by professors of physics
and mathematics at the University of San Diego in what we will begin
to call "Environmental Energy" to be slightly "scientifically-politically
correct," rather than blurt out "macroscopic violations
of the Second Law of Thermodynamics." The October 2002 article
in Foundations of Physics by Professors Sheehan, Putnam,
and Wright is "A Solid State Maxwell Demon." Yes, the
advent of possible Macroscopic Maxwell Demons is at hand. These
harnessed Demons will terrorize the Physics Establishment, once
it stops laughing in denial of the prospect. It is thrilling to
realize that Nikola Tesla predicted the advent of this "cold
hole" phenomenon even in his time: engines which could work
by preserving against diminution a localized cold region, a "cold
hole," into which heat from the environment would "fall"
with attendant generation of work. He wrote that he conceived this
in 1883! In other words, if the carefully simulated Sheehan et al.
device is realized, an "impossible" Perpetual Motion Machine
of the Second Kind is possible. All hell will break loose when the
unleashed Maxwell's Demons run wild!
This completes a summary of the three-pronged assault
on "business as usual" in science that new energy field
represents. But do not forget that with the exception of "cold
fusion," the basic form of which Tesla could not have foreseen,
the great man anticipated it all, and it's about time 2003,
a century after Tesla's Wardenclyffe.
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