Tesla, 79, Promises to Transmit Force
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Assails Theory of Relativity as Work of Metaphysicians and not Scientific
Nikola Tesla, the man with 700 basic patents to his credit, as well as the large-scale generation and distribution of alternating current, yesterday toured the press to his fertile mind on his 79th birthday.
He confined 3 of his startling adventures in theoretical and practical science.
- The first “would appear almost preposterous.”
- The second “would be considered absolutely impossible by any competent electrical engineer.”
- The third would knock away Relativity
Cosmic Ray Proof
He described relativity as “a beggar wrapped in purple whom ignorant people take for a king.”
In support of his statement he cited a number of experiments he had conducted, he said, as far back as 1896 on the cosmic ray.
He has measured cosmic ray velocities from Antares which he found to be 50 times greater than the speed of light. This demolishes one of the basic pillars of the structure of relativity which says that there can be no speed greater than that of light.
His Greatest Achievement
His “greatest achievement in engineering” was the perfection of “an apparatus by which mechanical energy can be transmitted to any part of the terrestrial globe.”
It will have at least 4 practical possibilities.
- It will provide global unfailing communication
- It will provide a new and by far the safest means for guiding ships at sea and into port
- It will furnish a certain divining rod for locating ore deposits of any kind under the surface of the earth
- It will furnish scientists with a means for laying bare the physical conditions of the earth, and will enable them to determine all of the earth’s physical constants.
He called this discovery “tele-geodynamics,” motion of earth-forces at a distance.
It is of this, he said, that it would “appear almost preposterous.”
The apparatus is “ideally simple,” consisting of a stationary part and a cylinder of fine steel “floating” in air.
He has found means, he said, of “impressing upon the floating part powerful impulses which react on the stationary part, and through the latter to transmit energy through the earth.”
To do this he has “found a new amplifier for a known type of energy,” and the “purpose is to produce impulses through the earth and then pick them up whenever needed.”
Second Invention
The second invention which “will be considered absolutely impossible by any electrical engineer,” was a new method and apparatus for producing direct current without a commutator, “something that has been considered impossible since the days of Faraday.”
Cosmic rays, he asserted, he found are produced by the force of “electrostatic repulsion”.
They consist of powerfully charged positive particles which come to us from the sun and other suns in the universe.
He determined, “after experimentation,” he added, that the sun is charged “with an electric potential of approximately 215,000,000,000 volts, while the electric charge stored in the sun amounted to approximately 50,000,000,000,000,000,000 electrostatic units.”
The theory of relativity he described as “a mass of error and deceptive ideas violently opposed to the teachings of great men of science of the past and even to common sense.”
“The theory, “he said, “wraps all these errors and fallacies and clothes them in magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors.
The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king. Its exponents are very brilliant men, but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists. Not a single one of the relativity propositions has been proved.”