Weird Science

[cowboyangel]

We need this:


Suppressed Research: Tesla Technologies


Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Nicola Tesla is one of this century's greatest scientists. A prodigious inventor of electronic devices and pioneer of free energy, Tesla never gained the recognition he deserved because his scientific breakthroughs were deemed to 'sensitive' by the ruling corporate and government powers of the day. Thus much of his research was suppressed and stolen.

In a book entitled Tesla - The Lost Inventions, a section is titled "Man-Made Earthquake". It discloses Tesla's fascination with the power of resonance and he experimented with it not only electrically but on the mechanical plane as well. In his Manhattan, USA lab, Tesla built mechanical vibrators and tested their powers. One experiment got out of hand.

Tesla attached a powerful little vibrator driven by compressed air to a steel pillar. Leaving it there, he went about his business. Meanwhile, down the street, a violent quaking built up, shaking down plaster, bursting plumbing, cracking windows, and breaking heavy machinery off its anchorages.

Tesla's vibrator had found the resonant frequency of a deep sandy layer of subsoil beneath his building, setting off a small earthquake. Soon Tesla's own building began to quake. It is reported that just as the police broke into his lab, Tesla was seen smashing the device with a sledge hammer, the only way he could promptly stop it.

In a similar experiment, on an evening walk through the city, Tesla attached a battery powered vibrator, described as being the size of an alarm clock, to the steel framework of a building under construction. He adjusted it to a suitable frequency and set the structure into resonant vibration.

The structure shook, and so did the earth under his feet. Tesla later boasted he could shake down the Empire State Building with such a device. If this claim was not extravagant enough, he went on to say a large-scale resonant vibration was capable of splitting the earth in half.

An article from the 11 July, 1935 issue of the New York American entitled 'Tesla's Controlled Earthquakes', stated Tesla's "experiments in transmitting mechanical vibrations through the earth - called by him 'the art of telegeodynamics' - were roughly described by the scientists as a sort of controlled earthquake."

The article quotes Tesla as stating:

"The rhythmical vibrations pass through the earth with almost no loss of energy. It becomes possible to convey mechanical effects to the greatest terrestrial distances and produce all kinds of unique effects. The invention could be used with destructive effect in war."

[cowboyangel]

Tesla Effect


Some investigators believe these electrical effects were associated with electromagnetic plasma and ball lightning and the strange array of flashes that result from Tesla-style technology. Was this brilliant flash of coloured light what Tesla talked about in 1935 when he mentioned "all kinds of unique effects"? Was this earthquake an early test of the system, conducted on the unsuspecting people of China? It certainly does not appear it was a natural earthquake. Was the same technology tried out on Turkey?

Andrija Puharich, MD, LL.D. in January 1978, issued a detailed research paper titled, "Global Magnetic Warfare - A Layman's View of Certain Artificially Induced Unusual Effects on the Planet Earth During 1976 and 1977". He was primarily looking into Soviet experiments with Tesla technology and believed controlled earthquakes were part and parcel of that work. Of them he wrote: "Of the many great earthquakes of 1976, there is one that demands special attention - the July 28, 1976 Tangshan, China earthquake."

The January 1978 edition of Specula magazine ran an article describing an incredibly profound phenomenon that could be produced within the Earth by what is called the 'Tesla Effect.' According to the article, electromagnetic signals of certain frequencies can be transmitted through the Earth to form standing waves in the Earth itself. In certain cases, coherence to this standing wave can be induced wherein a fraction of the vast, surging electromagnetic current of the Earth itself feeds into and augments the induced standing wave. In other words, "much more energy is now present in the standing wave than the ...amount being fed in from the Earth's surface." By interferometer techniques, giant standing waves can be combined to produce a focused beam of very great energy. This can then be used to produce earthquakes induced at distant aiming points.

Tesla expressed grave concerns about the effects of this technology because it is exactly the type of thing that could easily get out of control once it begins vibrating within the Earth - and it could actually cause the Earth to vibrate to pieces. Could the use of this technique have been responsible for the great earthquake in Tangshan, China in 1976?

Another leading Tesla researcher and nuclear engineer, Lt. Col. Thomas Bearden, lecturing at a Symposium of the US Psychotronics Association (USPA) in 1981 stated:

Tesla found that he could set up standing waves. in the earth (the molten core), or, just set it up through the rocks - the telluric activity in the rocks would furnish activity into these waves and one would get more potential energy in those waves than he put in. He called the concept the Tesla Magnifying Transmitter (TMT).

Bearden goes on to explain how TMTs worked:

They will go through anything. What you do is that you set up a standing wave through the earth and the molten core of the earth begins to feed that wave (we are talking Tesla now). When you have that standing wave, you have set up a triode.

What you've done is that the molten core of the earth is feeding the energy and it's like your signal - that you are putting in - is gating the grid of a triode. Then what you do is that you change the frequency. If you change the frequency one way (start to dephase it), you dump the energy up in the atmosphere beyond the point on the other side of the earth that you focused upon. You start ionising the air, you can change the weather flow patterns (jet streams etc) - you can change all that - if you dump it gradually, real gradually - you influence the heck out of the weather. It's a great weather machine. If you dump it sharply, you don't get little ionisation like that. You will get flashes and fireballs (plasma) that will come down on the surfaces of the earth. you can cause enormous weather changes over entire regions by playing that thing back and forth.

[Isotopia]

We need this:


Suppressed Research: Tesla Technologies

What we really need there Cowboy is the science to back it all up. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs. None of what you've referenced has been given ANY scientific creedence at all. Its really boils down to a lot of jawjacking and speculation most of which the scientific method has shot down quite effectively.

[Ranger Genius]

pioneer of free energy

Danger, will Robinson, Danger!

If you can reproduce one of the "experiments" in your posts, I know someone who'll give you a million dollars.

[psy-magpie]

hey I think your report on tesla is very interesting, forgive me as I only skim read it, sorry, I am supposed to be studying hard at the moment but get easily distracted. I think that these devices could be viable. However since they utilise the resonance effect once the frequencies of the two were in phase it would take a long time before the amplitude was amplified enough to be destructive. Therefore, lets say one of these devices was used to target a tall building, I think people would notice the gradual build up of the swaying motion. Having said that if these devices are very small it might be difficult to locate fast when faced with such a horrifying scenario.

Not entirely sure what or where my point was going but it was fun and distracted me from my studies for a while. Anyway those are my thoughts.

Emma

[dragonfly Jafe]

We need this:


Suppressed Research: Tesla Technologies

What we really need there Cowboy is the science to back it all up. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs. None of what you've referenced has been given ANY scientific creedence at all. Its really boils down to a lot of jawjacking and speculation most of which the scientific method has shot down quite effectively.

Tesla technology is real, but at odds with much of the technology/policies that we use today. For instance, one can create standing waves using the Earth, and distribute power that way (as Tesla did in his RC & radio-telephony experiments at the turn of the century (before real radio was "invented"), but there is no way to regulate it (kind of like radio broadcasts - anyone can pick it up). Also, quite a bit of radio interference results if you do things the way Tesla did (maybe OK on the Playa, but elsewhere get's one a visit from the FCC). There are plenty of references for anyone interested in history (I have a copy of his lab notebook from the Colorado Springs era, although conspiracy rumors have it that certain key parts were modified....)

Having said that, I don't think we want to set-up a Tesla Resonator on the Playa (Infrasound would be bad enough....)

[Rob the Wop]

hey I think your report on tesla is very interesting, forgive me as I only skim read it, sorry, I am supposed to be studying hard at the moment but get easily distracted. I think that these devices could be viable. However since they utilise the resonance effect once the frequencies of the two were in phase it would take a long time before the amplitude was amplified enough to be destructive. Therefore, lets say one of these devices was used to target a tall building, I think people would notice the gradual build up of the swaying motion. Having said that if these devices are very small it might be difficult to locate fast when faced with such a horrifying scenario.

Not entirely sure what or where my point was going but it was fun and distracted me from my studies for a while. Anyway those are my thoughts.

Emma

Hate to bust a bubble, but sound waves (pressure waves) are eventually dampened by the medium they travel through. Therefore, in order to destroy a building with a shoebox-sized object- you would have to take into account that the maximum amplitude of the resonant wave would be dictated by the force exerted and the dampening effect of the transmission medium. Yes Virginia, there is a limit to resonant frequencies.

[geekster]

I always wanted to get a flange and screw it to the wall, then attach an iron rod to the flange. Wind a voice coil around the rod and connect it to a subwoofer and let the neighbors have a taste of their own medicine. Then I moved out of that condo.

[geekster]

I always wanted to get a flange and screw it to the wall, then attach an iron rod to the flange. Wind a voice coil around the rod and connect it to a subwoofer and let the neighbors have a taste of their own medicine. Then I moved out of that condo.

Well, ment the subwoofer amp.

[psy-magpie]

Rob the wop, thanks for your insight, when I wrote that thing about the building I had tahoma bridge in mind. Is it not possible for a building to be destroyed by resonance?

Anyway I would be concerned if these things fell into the wrong hands. Would it actually be possible to split the earth in two, and if this happened what would happen? Would magma just spill out into space? Interesting thinking. Can you imagine the species that might evolve due to the separation. I bagsie the side where creatures evolved that needed no sleep and partied all day. sorry I digressed there slightly. he he

[Rob the Wop]

Rob the wop, thanks for your insight, when I wrote that thing about the building I had tahoma bridge in mind. Is it not possible for a building to be destroyed by resonance?

Absolutely. The issue is that people tend to ignore scope when given scientific ammo. Enough gunpowder can blow up the largest building, given the right containers placed in the appropriate places. An M-80 will not- regardless of where it is placed.

The Tahoma bridge was destroyed by air pressure at the right frequency. Wind pressures can be fuck-all strong as you are talking about an amount of force over a surface area. The Tahoma bridge was hit by concetrated high winds from a gorge over a large surface area (the bridge itself). That was a LOT of force at the right frequency. Add to that the flexibility built into bridges (for vibration, heat expansion, wind pressure, etc.) and the effect tore it to shreds.

So as to a shoe-box device destroying a skyscraper- how much repeated, timed force do you think something that size can employ? Or considering the size of the earth, how much force do you think will be needed to split it in half? I'm not a mechanical engineer, but I'd call a big ass 'bullshit' on those two above concepts from what little I know.

You can try this experiment at home if you want. Take a Q-tip. Tap it against your front door at different frequencies. If resonant frequency amplitude intensifies regardless of force applied or dampening effect of materials- you should be able to knock the door off its hinges. Keep tapping, you should be able to hit it eventually.

[psy-magpie]

fair point rob

[cowboyangel]

pioneer of free energy

Danger, will Robinson, Danger!

If you can reproduce one of the "experiments" in your posts, I know someone who'll give you a million dollars.

judgement anyone?

see Jim Patterson for free energy info if you can find him anymore

[Ranger Genius]

I say again: James Randi has long offered one million dollars in cold, hard cash to anyone who can demonstrate an operable free-energy device (including James Patterson). No one has yet come forward to claim this prize. In fact, it's available to anyone who can demonstrate, under proper observing conditions, ANY paranormal, supernatural, or occult event.

If one could show that free energy were possible, though, Randi's million would be tuppence...compared to the Nobel Prize, the global press recognition, and having shaken up our view of science like no one since Copernicus.

[dragonfly Jafe]

I say again: James Randi has long offered one million dollars in cold, hard cash to anyone who can demonstrate an operable free-energy device (including James Patterson). No one has yet come forward to claim this prize. In fact, it's available to anyone who can demonstrate, under proper observing conditions, ANY paranormal, supernatural, or occult event.

If one could show that free energy were possible, though, Randi's million would be tuppence...compared to the Nobel Prize, the global press recognition, and having shaken up our view of science like no one since Copernicus.

Randi is concerned with supernatural/paranormal events, not physics. And you are technically correct, BUT!

Where does the energy come from in a ground-based heat pump? Sure, it takes a little energy to "prime" the pump, but you get much more out that you put in. "Free energy" (at least to most people...)

The universe is the same way, at least until entropy is once again infinite. We just need a new definition of conservation of energy (and a better understanding of quantum physics) to make a working model...and even then it technically would not be a "free energy" device, as we would be "cooling" the universe (just like we "cool" the earth with our heat pumps...) Really no different from pumping oil out of the earth and burning it (another "free energy" source...)

Anyone else note that the water level in a well in West Virginia is said by the USGS to have dropped 3 feet (after oscillating widely) due to the tsunami? How could that be if the earth damps out energy?

The earth can be rung like a bell. Ring it at the right frequencies, it will resonate like a bell. If you hit a bell on one side, the other side rings with almost the same amount of force. If you put a transducer on one side of the bell, and hit the other, the "bell" would transmit the energy (with very little loss) to the transducer. Much more complicated than this, but that's the jist of it. Further, this bell is always ringing. So if one has the right "transducer" one can get "free energy" (supposedly Telsa had a "Georesonator" circuit that combined with his large towers in Colorado that did just this).

What does this have to do with Burningman? I haven't a clue...

[ronski]

I had tahoma bridge in mind.

Nit picky response-- do you mean the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, old 'Galloping Gertie' that was destroyed in 1940? Darn Indian names.

Sure, bridges can be destroyed by applied resonance factors, like groups of soldiers doing coordinated marching while crossing them. That's why leaders have them go into 'route step', breaking up the pattern.

[dragonfly Jafe]

A criticle point to understand - the bridge just sat there in a steady state. It was the wind, combined with some unfortunate mode shapes in the bridge, that resulted in the destruction of the bridge. The power came from the wind (another "free energy" source), wind that normally flows by with little effect. It was only when all the factors combined in just the right (wrong?) way that things got out of hand, so to speak!

[cowboyangel]

Solar Photovoltaic Breakthrough Taps Infrared Light
Renewable Energy Access

Tuesday 11 January 2005

In a paper published on the Nature Materials Web site on January 9, senior author and Professor Ted Sargent, Nortel Networks - Canada Research Chair in Emerging Technologies at the University of Toronto's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and his team report on their achievement in tailoring matter to harvest the sun's invisible, infrared rays.

"We made particles from semiconductor crystals which were exactly two, three or four nanometres in size," Sargent said. "The nanoparticles were so small they remained dispersed in everyday solvents just like the particles in paint," explains Sargent.

Sargent's team then tuned the tiny nanocrystals to catch light at very long wavelengths. The result is a sprayable infrared detector.

"Existing technology has given us solution-processible, light-sensitive materials that have made large, low-cost solar cells, displays, and sensors possible, but these materials have so far only worked in the visible light spectrum," Sargent said.

The discovery may help in the quest for cheaper, more efficient renewable energy resources. Specifically, it could help drive up the efficiencies of current polymer-based solar cells which hold the potential to be manufactured at a lower cost than current crystalline silicon cells but have so far been unable to match crystalline power conversion efficiencies.

"Companies have already been formed which have discovered how to make roll-to-roll, large area, plastic photovoltaics," Sargent said. "They face the challenge of low efficiencies in harvesting the sun's power. Our work has the potential to improve these efficiencies considerably.

Sargent expects their research breakthrough could see commercial implementation within 3 to 5 years.

Flexible, roller-processed solar cells have the potential to harness the sun's power, but efficiency, flexibility and cost are going to determine how that potential becomes practice, said Josh Wolfe, Managing Partner and nanotechnology venture capital investor at Lux Capital in Manhattan.

"These flexible photovoltaics could harness half of the sun's spectrum not previously accessed," he said.

Professor Peter Peumans of Stanford University, who has reviewed the U of T team's research, also acknowledges the groundbreaking nature of the work.

"Our calculations show that with further improvements in efficiency, combining infrared and visible photovoltaics, could allow up to 30 percent of the sun's radiant energy to be harnessed, compared to six percent in today's best plastic solar cells," Peumans said.

U of T electrical and computer engineering graduate student Steve MacDonald carried out many of the experiments that produced the world's first solution-processed photovoltaic in the infrared.

"The key was finding the right molecules to wrap around our nanoparticles," he explains. "Too long and the particles couldn't deliver their electrical energy to our circuit; too short, and they clumped up, losing their nanoscale properties. It turned out that one nanometer - eight carbon atoms strung together in a chain - was 'just right'."

Other members of the U of T research team are Gerasimos Konstantatos, Shiguo Zhang, Paul W. Cyr, Ethan J.D. Klem, and Larissa Lavina of electrical and computer engineering; Cyr is also with the Department of Chemistry. The research was supported in part by the Government of Ontario through Materials and Manufacturing Ontario, a division of the Ontario Centres of Excellence; the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada through its Collaborative Research and Development Program; Nortel Networks; the Canada Foundation for Innovation; the Ontario Innovation Trust; the Canada Research Chairs Programme; and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship.

[cowboyangel]

calling DVD Burner......what do you think of BitTorrent?
http://www.bitTorrent.com

[theCryptofishist]

Maybe this belongs here too.

Wow, I've just read the most well thought out essay of psudo-science I've read in a looooong time. Seems Richard Hogland now has proof... PROOF!! that Saturn's moon Iapetus is...

wait for it...

wait for it...

...an artificial SPACESHIP!!!

It's a kinda fun read, at least to find the giant leaps in logic, half assed image interpretations, half-assed corralations, painfully forced geometric overlays and complete ignorance any data that might be contradict the (i shudder to even use the word) hypothesis.

http://www.enterprisemission.com/moon1.htm

I love psudo-science wackos, they make the world more colorful.

Pour me a belt of scotch... it's payday :)

"That's no moon... it's a spacestation!"
-Obi Wan

---
rodent (putting the eek in geek)

[cowboyangel]

I forgot about this thread....thanks for bringing it back!