h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"Tesla was focusing on using radio waves for power transmission." - This statement is incorrect.

Tesla was not using radio he was using longitudinal electrostatic waves of successive compression and rarificaiton which would travel through space time in the same way that audio passes through air. This was purely an electrostatic effect and had nothing to do whatsoever with the electromagnetic effect. Indeed Tesla made some amazing discoveries here, when caused by 'impulses' of great violence the electrostatic field would propagate alongside the wire at a rate faster than the electrons, resulting in some remarkable effects such as the standard transformer equations being invalid i.e. he could produce several hundred KV with a coil ratio of around 3 - which is totally remarkable.

"This was the first clear example of his lack of theoretical rigor leading him astray" - This statement is incorrect.

Tesla had a great mathematical mind backed up by a number of PhHs from various institutions; he had a photographic memory and could perform logarithmic table lookups in his head. There are parts of Maxwell’s equations that never made their way in to the textbooks. These are called quaternion, and they were removed by Oliver Heavisied because they were to complex. These quaternion described the longitudinal propagation effects!

http://www.wikisearch.net/en/wikipedia/o/ol/oliver_heaviside.html

Thanks

Chris Rutherford

chirsmrutherford-at-hotmail.com

Also, it never mentioned his more fantastic inventions...for example, his handheld machine that could cause earthquakes (it had to do with matching something's natural frequency) and the machine that could create lightning.