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Re: What IS special about a Tesla coil?
Hi Gene,
I agree with you that Tesla only looked to the future and never dwelled to much
on the past. However if he was to come back, then perhaps he could carry on
from
where he left off.
High energy physics has not evolved much further from when he left the scene,
this is probably because most of the world's best minds are directed toward the
computer and telecommunications industry. Even with the advent of relativity
theory and quantum mechanics, plasma and high energy physics has not gone very
fare. This is mainly because such research needs hardware, not complex theory.
The hardware used in today's particle physics is pretty conventional stuff
(I am
referring to the energy part, the detectors are pretty advanced technology).
There are particle accelerators that use standing electromagnetic waves,
however
they are powered by basically high power radio transmitters. Yet any coiler
will
acknowledge that a disruptive discharge coil can convert more power than any
solid state device or thermionic valve driven system.
We get usable technology from playing around with hardware, not mucking around
with theory about what may be happening on the other side of the universe.
Edison and Tesla made more of a contribution on our lives than Einstein or Max
Plank. Even the tunnel diode, the first device to work on the principles of
quantum mechanics, was discovered by a manufacturing error in a diode factory.
In short we did not need to know about quantum tunneling to benefit from it.
I am afraid to say I have more admiration for some of the people on this list
than I do for Hawkins, as they will probably do more for humanity in their
research than he.
So bring back Tesla (metaphorically) and get some real mind blowing technology
going, like we had a hundred years ago, not the advanced paper shuffling
technology that dominates our world today (Internet, Computers, Digital T.V.
etc...).
Sorry if I have upset anybody,
Gavin, U.K.
Tesla List wrote:
> Original Poster: "tesla" <tesla-at-cyberverse-dot-com>
>
> <SNIP>
> Noah, If terry and Bob would digress, and let me, a fellow lurker attempt to
> answer this question, (even though I am NO Nikola Tesla, I feel somewhat
> qualified to answer THIS question.) :)
>
> I believe that Tesla might be dismissive of the Tesla group, period. Oh yes.
> he *might* find some inner fascination with a bunch of guys trying to better
> his genius at building coils, but Tesla's personality was to not look back.
> I think that making the tesla coil was mostly a means to an end for him.
> (Yes, I do remember that he did find lightning fascinating.) However, in
> today's world, I suspect that he would find everything changed enough to go
> into a whole new line of research.
>
> Gene
>