A single question remained, the answer to which would provide him with the essential information needed to create a new technology. What so separated or “fractioned” the diverse mobile carriers in his Transformer? It was the geometric configuration of the coil which inadvertently separated each component Electrons were blocked from flowing through the wire length, while the radiant pulse was released over the coil surface as a gaseous pulse. Electrons should have drifted through the wire but, during each impulse period, were blocked by the line resistance. Thus, the gaseous mobile carriers were released to flow outside the wire, a pulse which travelled along the outer coil surface from end to end.
Here then was evidence that electrical discharges were indeed composed of several simultaneous mobile species. Tesla now comprehended why his first high frequency alternating currents never evidenced these powerful actions. It was the abruptness, the violence of the impulsive discharge, which gave free mobility to this unsuspected “gaseous” component Impulses, unidirectional impulses, were the only means by which these potentials could be imlocked. Alternations were absolutely useless in this regard. Moreover, because alternations could not unleash the second gas-dynamic component, it remained an unusable and pitifully weak means. Tesla forever viewed his high frequency alternating devices as failed projects. This has great bearing on his highly critical views of Marconi and all the others like him who pursued high frequency alternating wave radio. Tesla began to study a topic which has found more enemies and critics than any this centvuy. Tesla, with greatest interest now, began researching “the aether”.
Victorian Science came to believe that space, all of space, was absolutely permeated with an ultrafine gas which they termed “aether”. It was in this gaseous atmosphere that light was said to be transmitted through space. In fact, space was not viewed as a pvue vacuum, aether filled that vacuum. Some Victorians stated that the aether could, at times, be visibly seen. The golden haze which often fills spaces within buildings were said to be manifestations of aether gas. These displays could be seen in conditions of minimal humidity and in the absence of aerial dust. Others mentioned the colorations often seen with the eyes opened, in a dark room or agaunst a ganzfeld, as evidence of aetheric luminations (Reichenbach). In order to satisfy all of the physical dynamics which eventually became attached to the concept, aether gas acquired several mutually contradictory attributes.
Lodge stated that aether gas necessarily existed in a density comparable to that of steel, yet behaved as a fluid. i?ther gas was also capable of passing through most substances, a permeating substance having no terrestrial equal. When an experiment designed to measure “aether drift” with light beam interferometry failed, most repudiated the existence of this gaseous space filling atmosphere altogether. Just before this moment in science history however, a wonderful theoretical abstract was pubhshed explaining the reality of the aether in chemical terms. If not for the author and his credibility, few would appreciate the import of his assertions.
A comprehensive analysis of these contradictory attributes was engaged by Professor Dmitri Mendeleev, “father” of the Periodic Table. Just before the turn of the Century, Dr. Mendeleev produced a wonderful theoretical view which elegantly satisfied each of the reigning contradictions of his day. His work was published years later in a smaill booklet entitled “A ChemicaJ Conception of The Ether” (1904). Herein, he treated the aether gas as an interstellar atmosphere composed of at least two lighter-than-hydrogen elements. These were produced by violent bombardments in stars, the sun being the most prolific neighboring source. According to Dr. Mendeleev, aether gas was an atmosphere probably composed of several different elemental species. He anticipated that the two gases would be found. Although these pre-hydrogen elements remained yet unknown, Mendeleev placed them in his Periodic Table
Just as he did when composing the Table in 1869.
These gases were placed in a special “zero group” preceding the Noble gases. The inertness of these aether gases explained their elusive “non-reactive" character. The nearly massless state of these different aetheric gases explained their ability both to permeate all matter without chemically interacting with it, and the high apparent density of aether. The lightest and first aether gas was assigned a theoretical atomic weight one hundred millionth that of hydrogen. The kinetic velocity of this first gas was calculated at 2.5 million meters per second. Such a highly mobile and vanishing aetheric mass could be rarefied and yet “appear” extremely dense. Dr. Mendeleev fully anticipated that these gaseous elements would someday be foimd through extraordinary apparatus. Others felt that, in this physical analysis. Dr. Mendeleev had not glimpsed the real aether at all. Many Victorian claimed that aether was extremely dense, like a flood of matter which could be felt as a pressure and seen as a multicolored radiance. Tesla ascribed to both of these views.
Tesla applied these principles in explaining the actions so visibly at work in his newest apparatus. Macroscopically, radiant shockwaves behaved as a gaseous impulse having electrical characteristics. This was no ordinary gas however. This “gaseous” component was not atmospheric in the ordinary sense. It was not the result of adsorbed gases on the copper coil surface. This gas pulse travelled over the coil surfaces with super-luminal velocity. Mr. Dollard utilized line interferometry to measure and compare both components in a real Tesla Impulse Transformer, and has proven the vast velocity differences between both. Moreover, the mysterious surface-riding component was found to travel at a super-luminal velocity. Those experimental measurement successfully vindicated the claim of Tesla in this regards in 1985. When referring to these discharges and their strange attributes and effects, Tesla always used gas-dynamic terms and gas-dynamic analogues. Throughout his use of such terminology, Tesla was inferring that something unlike normal electricity was flowing through short electrical impulses. That something was indeed behaving like a gas. The gas-dynamic components which rode the outer coil surface required aerodynamically smooth surfaces.
Tesla came to believe that dielectric fields were actually composed of aether streams. Theoretically then, one could derive limitless energy' by trapping and conducting a naturally occurring dielectric field line. The problem was that no ordinauily aiccessible material could resist the aether enough to derive any momentum firom it. With a streaim so rare as to pass through all known materials, flie kinetic energy inherent in dielectric field lines would remain an elusive energy soiuce. Tesla believed he may have found the secret to tapping this energy, but it would not require an ordinary kind of matter. Tesla viewed voltage as streams of aether under various states of pressure. Raising these stresses could produce enormous aether streams, where the observed voltages would then be extremely high and luminous. This was the very condition
Which Tesla had come to believe had been established in his Transformers.
In fact, Tesla repeatedly stated that his Transformers effected powerful movements in the eether. In one truly mystifying experiment indicative of these comprehension, Tesla describes the production of very rapid impulse trains with a subsequent production of “cool misty white streamers extending a yard into space”. These were cool to the touch, and harmless. K electrical in nature, they would necessarily have been several million volts in potentials. Their harmlessness is coupled with their sinuous nature, one completely unlike electrical currents. Michael Theroux successfully duplicated Teslian experiments with an apparatus whose secondary was no more than 2 feet in length, with a width of 1 foot When charged with a powerful electrostatic disruptive device of his own design and construction, Mr. Theroux succeeded in producing fluidic white streamers, sometimes exceeding 12 feet in length! These streamers continually grew in size, reaching the far wall of a cellar laboratory. Sinuous in their twisting maimer, he reports that the ends of these branched with lobate ends, an unlikely characteristic for ordinary electricity. Contrasted against the discharges produced by Wimhurst Machines and other Electrostatic devices alone, these white and highly vibrant displays lacked the blue cmd stark jaggedness commonly associated with sparks termed “electric”. In the light of experimental achievements such as these, and their attendant phenomena, we are required to review our theoretical base and reassess our most fundamental conventions.
Indeed, to understand Tesla Technology one must eliminate the notion that electrons are the “working fluid” in his radiant energy designs. With the lower coil end connected directly to the dynamo, high voltage aether streamers were projected from the upper terminal. When describing each of his relevant patents in this new technology, Tesla forever spoke of “light-like rays” and “the natural medium”. The first term refers to the tightly constricted aether streams which are propelled from his Transformers along infinitesimal ray lines, and the latter refers to the all-pervading aether atmosphere in which his technology operated.
Tesla now understood why the coloration of discharges varied so with various impulse durations. Each gas of the aetheric atmosphere was being stimulated to luminescence. Tesla repeatedly produced discharge colorations which had no equivalent in the common gas spectra prevalent in the terrestrial atmosphere. Colors of blood-red, and sky blue, of peach, and white were each described in detail by Nikola Tesla. Although sharing certain characteristics with electricity, aetheric energy was a totally different expression. .iEtheric energy held a potential which more nearly matched the expectations of those who dream and wish, a mystery realm. Tesla perceived this kinship between thought and aetheric energy with keenest intrigue, already planning the several necessary investigations before approaching this potential psychotronlc technology. He often exposed himself to the very shortest of aether impulse radiance, discovering the mind-elevating effects grew with time. jEtheric energy demonstrated growth characteristics which Tesla noted with amazement
It is impossible to comprehend Teslian Technology apart from the controversial topic concerning the aether. Many analysts will reject the concept without first seeking out and discovering the proofs which have been established by experimenters such as Eric Dollard. Nevertheless, the overwhelming evidence proves that Tesla had indeed been first to identify the gases which Dr. Mendeleev had so long predicted. Tesla addressed the notion that aether streams were being pulled through his Transformers, drawn in at higher natural pressure, and accelerated in the sharp electrical discharge. As electrical systems, Tesla apparatus cannot completely be understood or explained. One must view Teslian Technology as an aether gas technology, one capable of being explained only through gas-dynamic analogues.
It was now easy to understand how such projected rays, aether gas streams under high pressure, could penetrate metals and insulators alike. These powerful rays often could penetrate certain materials with inexplicable efficiency. Electricity did not perform these wonders. Tesla also now understood why these discharge streams produced their smoothly hissing sounds, visibly appearing like gas jets under high pressure. .Ether gas under pressure. But what of the other characteristics of this gaseous component? Here was a new world of forces and dynamics vaguely glimpsed by researchers such as Luigi Galvani who, in order to release the more vitahzing components observed in metals which were aerially disposed or grounded, persistently sought the elimination of electronic charge. Tesla was completely mystified. He had successfully released the mystery current, normally suppressed and bound in electronic charge carriers. Unidirectional impulsive discharges of high voltage and abrupt durations released them. What other potentials would aether gas technology release?
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