Posted on 03/06/2005 2:41:14 AM PST by Lori675
apparently the source was from somewhere in the ether??
Wooyee... wooyee!
GREED!!!
This is why they destroyed Tesla's prototype, and then destroyed him.
Tesla took his secrets to the grave.
DAMNABLE BIG OIL GUYS!!!
That sounds neat, got a wav file?
Not written by anybody with a grounding in physics, but what the heck, it's an amusing read..
Instead of Tom Swift we get Nick Tesla, no less -
Apparently you're one of the people who disprove without facts? On the basis of incredulty? It goes against your beliefs, so it must be wrong.
I'm no expert, but I can see by your statement that you know very little about Tesla.
Read up.
I believe we can assume the actual nemesis who is not named is none other than WESTINGHOUSE.
There are many fascinating aspects of Tesla's work that I wish I could learn.
The Waverly was an early electric-powered car, built in Indianapolis from 1899-1903, then again from 1909-1916. Owned for a time by subsidiaries of Pope Manufacturing Co., of Hartford, Conn., it was called the Pope-Waverly from 1904-1908. Other Pope nameplates of that time included the Pope-Hartford, the Pope-Toledo and the Pope-Tribune.
So why didn't Telsa tell any of his friends this technology.
This story sounds like a UFO type story.
Tesla also spoke very glowingly of this providence, saying of the energy itself that "it is available in limitless quantities".
Dr. Tesla stated that although "he did not know where it came from, mankind should be very grateful for its presence".
Sounds to me that it is the same type of energy found in a Joe Cell - only with no storage.
Tesla's biggest problem was that he was too far ahead of his time. He deserves to be remembered in the same league as Edison and Einstein.
Charged particles can cost you up to 18%. Pay cash.
The concept of zero-point energy derives from a well-known idea in quantum mechanics, the science that accounts for the behavior of particles near the atom's size. Specifically, zeropoint energy emerges from Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which limits the accuracy of measurements. The German physicist Werner Heisenberg determined in 1927 that it is impossible to learn both the position and the momentum of a particle to some high degree of accuracy: if the position is known perfectly, then the momentum is completely unknown, and vice versa. That's why at absolute zero, a particle must still be littering about: if it were at a complete standstill, its momentum and position would both be known precisely and simultaneously, violating the uncertainty principle.
Energy and Uncertainty
Like position and momentum, energy L and time also obey Heisenberg's rule. Residual energy must therefore exist in empty space: to be certain that the energy was zero, one would have to take energy measurements in that volume of space forever. And given the equivalence of mass and energy expressed by Einstein's E = mc^2, the vacuum energy must be able to create particles. They flash briefly into existence and expire within an interval dictated by the uncertainty principle.
This zero-point energy (which comes from all the types of force fields--electromagnetic, gravitational and nuclear) makes itself felt in several ways, most of them obvious only to a physicist. One is the Lamb shift, which refers to a slight frequency alteration in the light emitted by an excited atom. Another is a particular kind of inescapable, low-level noise that registers in electronic and optical equipment.
Perhaps the most dramatic example, though, is the Casimir effect. In 1948 the Dutch physicist H.B.G. Casimir calculated that two metal plates brought sufficiently close together will attract each other very slightly. The reason is that the narrow distance between the plates allows only small, high-frequency electromagnetic "modes" of the vacuum energy to squeeze in between. The plates block out most of the other, bigger modes. In a way, each plate acts as an airplane wing, which creates low pressure on one side and high pressure on the other. The difference in force knocks the plates toward each other.
While at the University of Washington, Lamoreaux conducted the most precise measurement of the Casimir effect. Helped by his student Dev Sen, Lamoreaux used gold-coated quartz surfaces as his plates. One plate was attached to the end of a sensitive torsion pendulum; if that plate moved toward the other, the pendulum would twist. A laser could measure the twisting of the pendulum down to O.Ol-micron accuracy. A current applied to a stack of piezoelectric components moved one Casimir plate; an electronic feedback system countered that movement, keeping the pendulum still. Zero-point-energy effects showed up as changes in the amount of current needed to maintain the pendulum's position. Lamoreaux found that the plates generated about 100 microdynes (one nanonewton) of force. That "corresponds to the weight of a blood cell in the earth's gravitational field," Lamoreaux states. The result falls within 5 percent of Casimir's prediction for that particular plate separation and geometry.
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