> Hi Folks!
<SNIP!> [I hate quoting long emails, don't you? :)]
> In my opinion, where Tesla shone was his realization that mechanically
> tuned devices could be copied and more precisely (and easily ) controlled
> using electric currents. Dale and J.W. don't want this out, partly
> because Dale has been given money by the Tesla group....I however, have
> no strings beyond association, so I would like to see the facts presented
> to let people decide for themselves...
>
> Wouldn't this create a delicious uproar in the Tesla Church? HERETIC,
> BLASPHEMER, I can hear them shouting.....gotta love it....
There are so many rip-offs, "borrowers", and outright THIEVES in the
"scientific community" that it's hillarious. Consider Einstein --
a man who's "theory of relativity" is, for all intents and purposes,
a cocked-up explanation of the EM-equivalent of the doppler effect...
although his suggestion that light travels at a uniform speed is complete
an utter trash. Someone around here also suggested that Einstein's
infamous equation, E=mc^2 had been presented in a british science journal
some months prior to Einstein's "discovery". This kind of crap goes on all
the time -- so do us all a favor: DO IT. :)
Go on - push this idea a little further... if Tesla really *IS* a hack,
then the people deserve to know. I don't like it when the wrong people get
glory, ya know (one of the big reasons I detest the Einstein cultists out
there).
---On a totally UNRELATED note (I didn't feel like putting this in a separatemessage) - I had an interesting thought the other day (er - oops -actually about an hour ago or so). I remembered reading something on BillBeaty's science page - he had the idea that mechanical motion and soundwere related. I rather liked the idea - and it kinda helps to explainsomething I noticed while in the shower: [don't ask! :)]
I was staring at droplets of water forming on the wall and running offtowards the bottom. But something interesting happened when a dropletcrossed a streaked path left by a previous droplet: the droplet mergedinto this stream and rocketed down that path towards the bottom below.It almost appeared as if the droplet merged with the streak of water leftbehind by the previous droplet and became a compression wave. I might bemaking a mountain out of a mole-hill, but it does leave the imaginationwondering, ya know?