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Nikola Tesla
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Tesla
and others believed that both electrical and magnetic forces were actually
streams of Aether gas, which had been fixated in matter. Materials were
somehow "polarized" by various "frictive" treatments by which an Aether gas
flow was induced in them. Most materials could maintain the flow
indefinitely, since no work was required on their part. Matter had only to
remain polarized, transducing the Aether flow. The Aether gas contained all
the power. Unlimited power.
This Aether gas power manifested as the
electromagnetic forces themselves, adequate reason to pursue the development
of an Aether gas engine. Such an engine could run forever on the eternal
kinetic energies of the Aether itself, it being both generated and driven by
the stars.
Tesla believed that radiant electricity is
composed of Aether gas. He based this belief on the fact that his zero
current coils were not conducting the "slow and dense" charges usually
observed in ordinary electrical circuits. Abrupt impulses produced
distinctive and different effects ... fluidic effects. The qualities
ascribed by Tesla to "electricity" or things "electrical" in his numerous
patent texts and press interviews are those, which refer to the Aether gas.
Tesla did not refer to electron currents as "electricity". He did not equate
"electricity" with electron flow. Whenever Tesla spoke of "electrical"
effects he always described their effusive, gaseous quality.
Tesla referred to space as the "ambient or
natural medium". Space, he claimed, was that which "conducts electricity".
He had found a means by which this gaseous electrical flow could be greatly
concentrated, magnified, and directed. He saw that this radiant electricity
was, in reality, a gaseous emanation. An Aetheric emanation. This is why he
made constant reference to fluidic terminology throughout his lectures.
Resistance, volume, capacity, reservoir,
surface area, tension, pressure, pressure release: these were the terms upon
which Tesla relied throughout his presentations. The terminology of
hydraulics. Tesla also recognized that because Aether was a gas, it had
aerodynamic requirements.
Aether, in Tesla's
lexicon, was space flowing electricity: a gas of superlative and
transcendent qualities. Aether was the electricity, which filled all of
space, a vast reservoir of unsurpassable power. Motive, dynamic, and free
for the taking. Aether gas technology would revolutionize the world. Aether
gas engines would provide an eternal power source for the world. Science,
industry, corporations, financial alignments, social orders, nations ...
everything would change.
INTRIGUES
Completing a tour of the major scientific
institutes in America, Tesla expected to retire for a season of rest in New
York once again. News of his advancements however, flooded every technical
trade journal. The name Tesla was everywhere once again. First polyphase and
now radiant electricity. He was the "darling" of the press. Tesla captured
the public eye once again. People everywhere were thrilled with the
projected future visions, which Tesla freely provided. He was a model
European immigrant, suave and debonair. These are probably the qualities
which first attracted Anne Morgan. Irresistible, wealthy, unattached, and
warm. Tesla was her obsession.
Despite his great personal charm and magnetic
personality, he maintained his serious tone and poise wherever he went. The
vision of the future was far more important than the attentions of a young
and flirtatious lady. In anticipation of these forthcoming events, Tesla
often invited other socially esteemed guests to his laboratory for special
demonstrations. In this manner, it was noised abroad that what he claimed
was in fact real. Anne often attended these gatherings, breathing silently
in the shadows of his large loft laboratory.
There were others who, although not attending
these demonstrations, were equally watchful of Tesla's newest radiant energy
developments. Several of these persons, shall we say, were interested in his
new discovery and its implications...because their fortunes were threatened.
Tesla had swept the world once with polyphase. He wiped out Edison's Direct
Current System overnight.
J.P. Morgan,
Edison's recent "patron", had lost a considerable sum during that fiasco. It
was certain that Tesla would soon sweep the world again with broadcast
electricity. This destabilizing influence would not be tolerated. Anne
complicated the affair considerably. She was in love with Tesla. Obsessed in
fact. Too obsessed and desperate to let go.

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