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Re: c^2 and Longitudinal Waves



Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Terry:

	The following is very well put, but there'll be a lot of flack on this
one!

Ed

> Hi Dave, All,
> Unfortunately, the paper you cite contains several assumptions and
declarations
> by Tesla that have been proved dead wrong:
> 1. Heaviside layer does exist and has very accurately measured properties
> 2. The Aether does NOT exist. (cf Michelson-Morley experiment and Einstein's
> interpretation thereof)
> 3. The energy radiated as "Hertzian" (electromagnetic transverse waves)
> accounts for ALL of the input energy to a transmitter (minus heat losses) and
> therefore, if longitudinal waves exist, the must contain NO energy.
> 4. <http://www.tesla-coil-builder-dot-com/TeslaCD/Tesla%20Patents/00787412.pdf>US
> Patent 787,412 and
> <http://www.tesla-coil-builder-dot-com/TeslaCD/Tesla%20Patents/01119732.pdf>US
> Patent 1,119,732, describe devices that were never completed and therefore
> never
> tested.
> 5. Specifically, the device in 1,119,732 was for the transmission of energy
> through the earth as through it were a conductor, not via electromagnetic
> radiation at all.
> 6. His atmospheric transmission system, as described in patents 645,576,
> 649,621, et. seq. were, in his day, and remain today, unconstructable. They
> also relied on a non-existant layer of the atmosphere at a height of ~15
miles.
> 
> Your quotation from Einstein about God and Dice is one of the most misquoted
> and misunderstood. It was Einstein's rejection of the "Copenhagen
> Interpretation" of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and does not relate
> directly to special relativity arguments.
> 
> I am not all sure that a mailing list on the practical aspects of Tesla Coil
> construction is the proper venue for a major dissertation on field theory
or a
> class on Tensor Calculus, so I'm getting off my soap box now.
> 
> Matt D.
> G3-1085