Glossary of Tesla Terms (Thomas Valone)

Original: Excerpt adapted from "Project Insight: A Study of Tesla's Advanced Concepts", H. W. Jones

    Author: H. W. Jones; Thomas Valone   Edited by: The Creator One


Excerpt adapted from "Project Insight: A Study of Tesla's Advanced Concepts," H. W. Jones, Proceedings of the Tesla Centennial Symposium, 1984

Advanced Concepts: Those ideas which Tesla was known to have conceived and developed to some extent, but did not pursue to fruition because of lack of funding and laboratory facilities. The more dramatic of these concepts were: free energy, wireless transmission of energy, employment of scalar technology, non-Hertzian waves, the Tesla shield, the Tesla ray.

Ball Lightning: A form of lightning in which a slow-moving, extremely high temperature sphere forms. Only rarely seen in nature, but producible by artificial means. Currently being used in the study of harnessing fusion energy for commercial use.

DeBroglie Wave: The quantum mechanics wave associated with a particle of matter which can theoretically give rise to intra-atomic interference effects. In his speech accepting the Nobel Prize, DeBroglie emphasized that these waves are real and must not be regarded simply as mathematical oddities or conveniences.

Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP): A sharp pulse of energy and electromagnetic radiation occurring when an explosion occurs in an unsymmetrical envrionment. Tesla theorized that an EMP would result when two longitudinal scalar electrostatic potential wave patterns met and coupled into a flash of vector electromagnetic energy.

Electromagnetic Theory (EMT): Conventional electrical theory currently taught in our educational system, mainly giving credit only to Hertz, Maxwell, and Faraday. Tesla's work challenged the adequacy of existing EM theory, as do many physicists today. EM theory is only good for "far field" EM waves, as only electrical engineering EM textbooks (e.g. Magid) will admit. The recommended physical perspective, is to ask whether we are within the "near field," i.e., within the first couple of wavelengths. In this region, a capacitively-created EM wave will still retain mainly electrical characteristics and can be stopped by a Faraday cage. However, a inductively-created EM wave will still retain mainly magnetic characteristics and go right through even the most expensive Faraday cage (made with Mu Metal) such as the quarter-million dollar one at Wright-Patterson AFB. Especially when dealing with extremely low frequency (ELF), most staunch EM theorists are stymied because we are always within the near field with ELF waves

Electromagnetic Wave: A Hertzian wave. A wave that oscillates transversely rather than longitudinally, having electric (E) field and magnetic (B) field effects (each may be detected). If two sine waves are pictured, perpendicular to each other, one on the x-y plane (vertical) and the other on the x-z plane (horizontal), both traveling in the x-direction, the E-field will be designated by the x-y plane wave (if it is polarized light) and the B- field will be the x-z plane wave. Polaroid® sunglasses work because they only let the E-field light through if it is in the x-y plane, whereas any reflected glare will have the E-field oscillating in the x-z plane (which is horizontal). Non-Hertzian waves are not transverse and often occur because near field, distorted waves are created in the experiment.

Energy: The capacity to do work, which is the result of a force moving a mass through a distance. Measured in "joules" it is the timeless version of power times time, such as kilowatt- hours (kWh). See zero-point energy

Ether: Simply stated, it is the same as the physical vacuum. This differs from the common understanding of empty space, since theorists regard the ether (and the physical vacuum) as having substance (and particles in negative energy states). With the Silvertooth experiments, now showing a preference of direction for the old Michelson-Morley type of experiment, the ether is coming back into vogue. Very compatible with Eastern mysticism.

Free Energy: Energy which is free. Often confused with perpetual motion, free energy has three aspects;

1. no cost for input;
2. plentiful and inexhaustible;
3. one-time capital expenditure.

Renewable energy is free energy, Zero point energy (ZPE) is also free and equated with the ether. A prophetic endorsement for free energy comes from Tesla's comment that "it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature." 1 He implies, what was discovered years later, that in open systems, it appears that energy is not conserved (e.g. ZPE vacuum fluctuations), However, in closed systems, we know that the second law of thermodynamics and energy conservation laws apply. Compare with the physics definition G = H - TS where G is "Gibb's free energy," H is enthalpy, T is absolute temperature, and S is entropy. In words, free energy is the internal energy of a system minus the product of its temperature and its entropy.

Gravity: The phenomenon characterized by the physical attraction of any two material bodies, defined as the product of the masses divided by the square of the distance between them. Today, physicists are surprised to find evidence of antigravity in the accelerated expansion of the distant galaxies (Science, Dec. 18, 1998) which was called "the breakthrough of the year." However, Tesla talked about controlling gravity many times. The fact that gravity is always attractive and never repulsive is a curiosity that physicists have always wondered about. The fact that gravity has to travel many times faster than light speed to prevent aberrations has caused a lot of commotion. There are many accepted modalities for creating artificial gravity and antigravity with high energy electromagnetism.

Longitudinal Wave: A "pressure" type of wave, similar to sound, in which the vibrations are along the direction of travel, a sequence of compressions and rarefactions. E and B fields are misaligned. Scalar waves are longitudinal, as contrasted with electromagnetic (EM "Hertzian") waves which have transverse oscillations. Longitudinal waves are nonHertzian. The current density can be split into tranverse J_t and into longitudinal J_l components. Longitudinal scalar waves can penetrate a standard Faraday Cage; transverse vector waves (EM, "Hertzian")cannot.

Radiant Energy: Term used by Tesla in his two 1901 patents, indicating radiation of any type.

Scalar Field: In physics, each point in space for a particulas potential is assigned a magnitude but no direction. The scalar potention is just the Coulomb potential due to a charged density p(x,t). While EM waves travel at light speed, the "scalar Potential 'propagates' instantaneously everywhere in space".

Scalar Wave: (See Longitudinal Wave.) Also referred to as a Tesla Wave. An electrostatic scalar potential wave which, in the absence of spinning charged mass particles, does not form a vector electromagnetic wave, in contradictinction to present electromagnetic theory. Because no energy or momentum transfer occures, this wave (wave: change of field) can penetrate all objects and in fact can traverse the whole universe. Scalar waves thus may in fact, travel fasten than light speed c, since no c-limited fields are involved.

Tesla Fireball: (See Ball Lightning.) Interference of two scalar Fourier expansion patterns to form a glowing, fiery globe of radiant electromagnetic energy. A self-sustaining blobe of radiant energy, exhibiting soliton behavior.

Tesla Ray: Forerunner of the laser. An electronic device demonstrated by Tesla, and offered by him to the British Government in 1937 as a defense against the potential Luftwaffe threat. It was ridiculed and rejected. There is a variation is called the Tesla Death Ray, which was a particle beam weapon.

Transverse Wave: A standard Hertzian vector wave which oscillates laterally, as contrasted with a Tesla electrostatic scalar wave which vibrates longitudinally.

Vacuum: A plenum which is filled with particles in negative energy states. Dr. Paul Dirac became a Nobel Prize winner for predicting the existence of the positron (antimatter electron with positive charge) after theorizing that under high voltage circumstances, and electron-positron pair can emerge, like magic, from the vacuum and go off in opposite directions, Such experiments (shown here with cloud chamber picture) have verified the vacuum is teaming with activity. See zero-point energy.

Vector: A force or field that has magnitude and direction, compared with scalar fields. EM waves are vector fields and contain momentum.

Wardenclyffe: Name of the first transmission tower in the world, erected 1901-3 in Shoreham, NY by Tesla which rose to a height of 187 feet. The Tesla Wardenclyffe Project.

Zero-Point Energy: The energy of the vacuum that is sustained even at zero absolute temperature and no air (complete vacuum). This is the "very wheelwork of nature" and even implicated in the antigravity effect seen on the acceleration of distant galaxies (Science, Dec, 1998) The Casimir effect, experimentally verified, shows that virtual particles, as they emerge from the vacuum, also exert a measurable force, Zero-point energy (ZPE) has so many unusual characteristics that it forms the most intriguing field of study in physics today. It is predicted that, since the ZPE Casimir force already exhibits perpetual wavy motion already in nanotechnology (endless oscillations of nanostructures under tensile stress),