NIKOLA TESLA - Everything is the Light

Thread: everything is electricity - Nikola tesla hidden interview

great minds think alike

thanks, I did not know this thread had been posted.
all the same, just wanted more people to hear this.

He was the original 'electric universe' proponent,
he had this all figured out. Sad he has been all
but erased from 19th and 20th century history.

that in it self speaks volumes.
Edison was a nobody compared to Tesla!

Last Edited by Rogue bear poop on 05/07/2016 07:47 PM

This is fake. Tesla never spoke about stuff like that. In fact, he dismissed people who tried to enlist him in their esoterical clubs. He also went out of his way to dismiss surnatural magic moments he had when he was sick as brain tricks. So everytime you read something about Tesla and it sounds like new age crap, its fake. He was a scientist, not a new age guru.

If you're interested in Tesla, google "pepe tesla", and read the actual words of Tesla. Scroll down for the Lectures and Articles cause the first part is the patents and its not accessible for everyone, as in you need some science education to get it.

Anyway, read all the Lectures and Articles and then you will be able to call out the fake Tesla stuff easily.


Előadások - Cikkek (Lectures - Articles):

1888-05-16: A New System of Alternate Current Motors and Transformers
1888-06-22: The Tesla Alternate Current Motor
1889-05-25: Mr. Nikola Tesla on Alternate Current Motors
1890-04-09: The Losses Due to Hysteresis in Transformers
1890-09-24: Swinburne's "Hedgehog" Transformer
1890-09-24: Tesla's New Alternating Motors
1891-02-21: Phenomena of Alternating Currents of Very High Frequency
1891-03-18: Experiments With Alternating Currents of High Frequency
1891-04-03: Alternate Current Motors
1891-04-03: Electro-motors
1891-04-08: Phenomena of Currents of High Frequency
1891-05-06: Alternate Current Electrostatic Induction Apparatus
1891-05-06: An Electrolytic Clock
1891-05-20: Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination
1891-07-01: Electric Discharge in Vacuum Tubes
1891-09-02: Notes on a Unipolar Dynamo
1892-02-__: Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency
1892-10-08: The "Drehstrom" Patent
1892-12-17: The Ewing High-Frequency Alternator and Parson's Steam Engine
1892-12-21: On the Dissipation of the Electrical Energy of the Hertz Resonator
1893-02-__: On Light and Other High Frequency Phenomena
1893-02-11: The Physiological and Other Effects of High Frequency Currents
1896-02-16: From Nikola Tesla - He Writes About His Experiments in Electrical Healing
1896-03-11: On Roentgen Rays (1)
1896-03-18: On Roentgen Rays (2) - Latest Results
1896-03-18: Tesla's Latest Results - He Now Produces Radiographs at a Distance of More Than Forty Feet
1896-04-01: On Reflected Roentgen Rays
1896-04-08: On Roentgen Radiations
1896-04-22: Roentgen Ray Investigations
1896-05-09: On Apparatus for Cathography
1896-07-08: An Interesting Feature of X-Ray Radiations
1896-08-12: Roentgen Rays or Streams
1896-12-01: On the Roentgen Streams
1896-12-23: Mr. Tesla on Thermo Electricity
1897-01-27: On Electricity
1897-03-__: The Age of Electricity
1897-05-05: On the Hurtful Actions of Lenard and Roentgen Tubes
1897-08-11: On the Source of Roentgen Rays and the Practical Construction and Safe Operation of Lenard Tubes
1898-01-05: Tesla's Latest Advances in Vacuum-Tube Lighting - Application of Tubes of High Illuminating Power to Photography and Other Purposes
1898-02-06: Tesla on Animal Training by Electricity
1898-09-13: High Frequency Oscillators for Electro-Therapeutic and Other Purposes
1898-11-13: My Submarine Destroyer
1898-11-24: Letter to Editor
1898-11-30: Tesla Describes His Efforts in Various Fields of Work
1899-03-15: On Current Interrupters
1899-03-29: Some Experiments in Tesla's Laboratory With Currents of High Potential and High Frequency
1900-06-__: The Problem of Increasing Human Energy
1901-01-30: Tesla's New Discovery - Capacity of Electrical Conductors is Variable
1901-02-02: Tesla's Wireless Light
1901-02-09: Talking With Planets
1902-05-18: Tesla Thinks Wind Power Should be Used More Now
1904-01-01: Electrical oscillator activity ten million Horsepower
1904-02-06: A Striking Tesla Manifesto
1904-03-05: The Transmission of Electric Energy Without Wires
1904-11-27: Letter From Tesla (Refers to subway system)
1904-12-29: Electric Autos - Nikola Tesla's View of the Future in Motive Power
1905-01-07: The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires As a Means for Furthering Peace
1905-06-24: Tesla on Subway Dangers
1905-07-14: Tesla's Reply to Edison
1905-07-16: Tesla On The Peary North Pole Expedition
1907-03-__: Signalling to Mars - A Problem of Electrical Engineering
1907-03-08: Tuned Lightning
1907-03-20: Tesla's Wireless Torpedo
1907-03-26: Wireless on Railroads
1907-05-02: Nikola Tesla Objects
1907-05-03: Tesla's Tidal Wave to Make War Impossible
1907-05-19: Mr. Tesla on the Wireless Transmission of Power
1907-06-23: Can Bridge Gap to Mars
1907-10-19: Sleep From Electricity
1907-10-22: Possibilities of "Wireless"
1907-10-25: Tesla on Wireless
1907-12-20: My Apparatus, Says Tesla
1908-__-__: The Future of the Wireless Art
1908-01-05: Nikola Tesla's Forecast for 1908
1908-04-21: Mr. Tesla's Vision
1908-06-08: Little Aeroplane Progress
1908-09-15: Tesla on Aeroplanes
1909-05-23: How to Signal Mars
1909-12-24: Nikola Tesla's New Wireless
1910-01-16: What Science May Achieve This Year - New Mechancial Principle for Conservation of Energy
1912-05-__: Mr. Tesla on the Future
1912-07-06: The Disturbing Influence of Solar Radiation on the Wireless Transmission of Energy
1913-11-09: Nikola Tesla Plans to Keep "Wireless Thumb" on Ships at Sea
1914-03-21: From Nikola Tesla (Tribute to George Westinghouse)
1914-05-22: Tesla and Marconi
1914-12-20: Science and Discovery are the great Forces which will lead to the Consummation of the War
1915-02-07: How Cosmic Forces Shape Our Destinies
1915-06-05: Some Personal Recollections
1915-09-09: The Wonder World to Be Created by Electricity
1915-10-03: Nikola Tesla Sees a Wireless Vision
1915-10-04: Correction by Mr. Tesla
1915-12-08: Tesla's New Device Like Bolts of Thor
1916-12-02: Wonders of the Future
1917-02-25: Electric Drive for Battle Ships
1917-04-15: Nikola Tesla Tells of Country's War Problems
1917-05-18: Minutes of the Edison Medal Meeting, May 18, 1917, with Nikola Tesla's Acceptance Speech on Receiving the Edison Medal
1917-08-__: Tesla's Views on Electricity and the War
1918-02-07: A Lighting Machine on Novel Principles
1919-01-__: The Effect of Statics on Wireless Transmission
1919-02-__: Famous Scientific Illusions
1919-02-23: Tesla Answers Mr. Manierre and Further Explains the Axial Rotation of the Moon
1919-04-__: The Moon's Rotation
1919-04-__: Tesla on High Frequency Generators
1919-05-__: The True Wireless
1919-06-__: The Moon's Rotation
1919-06-__: My Inventions, V. The Magnifying Transmitter
1919-07-__: Electrical Oscillators
1919-07-__: Nikola Tesla Tells How We May Fly Eight Miles High at 1,000 Miles an Hour
1919-10-__: Can Radio Ignite Balloons?
1919-10-12: Signals to Mars Based on Hope of Life on Planet
1920-12-11: Developments in Practice and Art of Telephotography
1921-09-24: Interplanetary Communication
1921-09-26: Nikola Tesla on Electric Transmission
1923-02-25: A Giant Eye to See Round the World
1927-10-16: 'World System' of Wireless Transmission of Energy
1929-09-22: Nikola Tesla Tells of New Radio Theories
1929-11-29: Mr. Tesla Speaks Out
1930-04-__: Tesla Maps Out Our Electrical Future
1930-04-13: Letter to Editor (On Marconi's feat)
1930-07-06: Man's Greatest Achievement
1931-07-20: Tesla at 75
1931-11-__: Faster Than Light!
1931-11-07: No High Speed Limit, Says Tesla
1931-12-__: On Future Motive Power
1932-02-06: Dr. Tesla Writes of Various Phases of His Discovery
1932-04-15: Statement of Tesla Relating to Force and Matter
1932-07-10: Tesla Cosmic Ray Motor May Transmit Power 'Round Earth
1932-07-10: Tesla, 76, Reports His Talents At Peak
1932-08-10: Chewing Gum More Fatal Than Rum, Says Tesla
1932-09-11: Pioneer Radio Engineer Gives Views on Power
1933-06-05: Mr. Tesla Writes (Refers to J. P. Morgan)
1933-09-10: Tremendous New Power Soon to be Unleashed
1933-11-02: Tesla 'Harnesses' Cosmic Energy
1933-12-__: Breaking up Tornadoes
1934-03-__: Possibilities of Electro-Static Generators
1934-04-__: Nikola Tesla Writes (Additional comments on electrostatic generators)
1934-04-08: Tesla Sees Evidence Radio and Light Are Sound
1934-07-__: Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World
1934-07-10: Invents Peace Ray - Tesla Describes His Beam of Destructive Energy
1934-07-11: Death-Ray Machine Described
1934-07-11: Tesla, at 78, Bares New 'Death-Beam'
1934-07-11: Beam to Kill Army at 200 Miles, Tesla's Claim on 78th Birthday
1934-07-24: Tesla on Power Development and Future Marvels
1934-10-21: Tribute to King Alexander
1934-10-21: Dr. Tesla Visions the End of Aircraft in war
1935-02-__: A Machine to End War
1935-03-03: German Cosmic Ray Theory Questioned
1935-06-05: Tesla Predicts Ships Powered by Shore Beam
1935-07-09: 3 Tesla Inventions
1935-07-11: Nikola Tesla, at 79, Uses Earth to Transmit Signals; Expects to Have $100,000,000 Within Two Years (Kivonatok a cikkből)
1935-07-11: Tesla's Controlled Earthquake
1935-07-11: Tesla, 79, Promises to Transmit Force
1935-08-18: Expanding Sun Will Explode Someday Tesla Predicts (Kivonatok a cikkből)
1935-09-22: Nikola Tesla Tells How He'd Defend Ethiopia Against Italian Invasion
1936-07-11: Tesla, 80, Reveals New Power Device
1937-07-10: Prepared Statement of Tesla (For interview with press on 81st birthday observance)
1937-07-11: Sending of Messages to Planets Predicted by Dr. Tesla on Birthday
1937-07-12: Tesla Has Plan to Signal Mars
1937-07-27: Dr. Tesla's Honors
1937-08-22: In the Realm of Science: Tesla, Who Predicted Radio, Now Looks Forward to Sending Waves to the moon
1938-05-12: Text of Tesla Speech for the Institute of Immigrant Welfare
1938-10-08: Reference to Compass in 13th Century Poem
1939-__-__: Story of Youth Told by Age
1939-07-26: The Soviet Sacrifice of Spain
1940-07-12: Aerial Defense 'Death-Beam' Offered to U. S. By Tesla
1940-09-22: 'Death Ray' for Planes
1940-10-20: Proposing the 'Death Ray' for Defense

_No_Date_: Mechanical Therapy
_No_Date_: The New Tesla Electric Heater
_No_Date_: Tesla's New System of Fluid Propulsion

1948-05-16: Nikola Tesla (Summary of some major achievements of Nikola Tesla)

maybe you could use some of your
science education to get it!



the man clearly had esoteric ideas
about the future of humanity.

I can not vouch for the authenticity of the interview.

Last Edited by Rogue bear poop on 05/07/2016 07:42 PM

I didnt ment it as an insult to the scientifically challenged people btw. Just as a warning about the dryness of the patents texts. Basicly they are not ment to be read by the general public vs the articles and lectures.

Here's the article about radio sound and light



1934 04 08

TESLA SEES EVIDENCE RADIO AND LIGHT ARE SOUND *




An Inventor's Seasoned Ideas

Nikola Tesla, Pointing to 'Grevious Errors' of the Past, Explains Radio as He Sees It at Age of 77 - He Expects Television

By Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr.

A tall, lean inventor in a cutaway walked into his skyscraper parlor thirty-three floors 'above the sidewalks of New York, laid his black derby on the table, opened the window and then was ready to talk about radio's past, present and future. He was Nikola Tesla, the inventor whose discovery of the rotary magnetic field made possible the alternating current motor. He described a system of wireless transmission of energy in 1892.

Seven milestones beyond three-score and ten, this electrical wizard, who came to America in 1884, looked back across the years, recalled where theorists often chose wrong paths at the crossroads of science and then turned his thoughts to the future in which television lurks.

A Spectacle That Frightens.

"There is something frightening about the universe when we consider that only our senses of sound and sight make it beautiful," said Mr. Tesla as his furrowed brow indicated he is puzzled with its destiny. "Just think, the universe is darker than the darkest ink; colder than the coldest ice and more silent than a silent tomb with all the bodies rushing through it at terrific speeds. What an awe-inspiring picture, isn't it? Yet it is our brain that gives merely a physical impression. Sight and sound are the only avenues through which we can perceive it all. Often I have wondered if there is a third sense which we have failed to discover. I'm afraid not," he said after some hesitation in thought.

Looking back to the mauve decade, to the turn of the century when the world was being thrilled with new ideas and discoveries, Mr. Tesla observes a vast change in the art of invention. Man, he finds, in this streamlined era of speed, has little chance to think.

Fruits of Seclusion

The big, modern research laboratories are but the incubators of ideas as he has watched them function. Seldom, if ever, he explains, has an original idea of consequence been born in an elaborate laboratory. The egg of science is laid in the nest of solitude. True, it may later be incubated, hatched and nursed in the million dollar laboratory.

"It is providential that the youth or man of inventive mind is not 'blessed' with a million dollars," said Mr. Tesla. "He would find it difficult to think. The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. No big laboratory is needed in which to think. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. That is why many of the earthly miracles have had their genesis in humble surroundings."

Radio experimenters of this age are following ancient theories, Mr. Tesla believes, and he warns that progress will be more rapid when they discard the old and adop the new ideas. His directions for getting on the right track of radio, television and sundry other branches of science follow:

"The fascinatiion of the electro-magnetic theory of light, advanced by Maxwell and subsequently experimentally investigated by Hertz, was so great that even now, although controverted, the scientific minds are under its sway. This theory supposed the existence of a medium which was solid, yet permitted bodies to pass through it without resistance; tenuous beyond conception, and yet, according to our conceptions of mechanical principles and ages of experience, such a medium was absolutely impossible. Nevertheless, light was considered essentialy a phenomenon bound up in that kind of a medium; namely, one capable of transmitting transverse vibrations.like a solid.

A Question Tesla Asked.

"It is true," said Mr. Tesla, "that many scientific minds envisaged the theory of a gaseous ether, but it was rejected again and-again because in such a medium longitudinal waves would be propogated with infinite velocity. Lord Kelvin conceived the so-called contractile ether, possessing properties which would result in a finite velocity of longitudinal waves. In 1885, however, an academic dissertation was published by Prof. De Volson Wood, an American, at a Hoboken institution, which dealt with a gaseous ether in which the elasticity, density and specific heat were determined with rare academic elegance. But, so far, everything pertaining to the subject was purely theoretical."

What, then can light be if it is not a transverse vibration? That was the question he asked himself and set out to find the answer.

"I consider this extremely important," said Mr. Tesla. "Light cannot be anything else but a longitudinal disturbance in the ether, involving alternate compressions and rarefactions. In other words, light can be nothing else than a sound wave in the ether."

This appears clearly, Mr. Tesla explained, if it is first realized that, there being no Maxwellian ether, there can be no transverse oscillation in the medium. The Newtonian theory, he believes, is in error, because it fails entirely in not being able to explain how a small candle can project particles with the same speed as the blazing sun, which has an immensely higher temperature.

"We have made sure by experiment," said Mr. Tesla, "that light propagates with the same velocity irrespective of the character of the source. Such constancy of velocity can only be explained by assuming that it is dependent solely on the physical properties of the medium, especially density and elastic force.

Micro-Wave Possibilities.

Coming now to the wireless waves, it is still true that they are of the same character as light waves, only they are not transversal but longitudinal. As a matter of fact, radio transmitters emit nothing else but sound waves in the ether, and if the experts will realize this they will find it very much easier to explain the curious observations made in the application of these waves.

"It being a fact that radio waves are essentially like sound waves in the air, it is evident that the shorter the waves the more penetrative they would be. In 1899 I produced electromagnetic waves from one to two millimeters long and observed their actions at a distance. There has been a great hope expressed by various workers that introduction of these waves will have a revolutionary effect, but I am not sharing the opinion. They will be used, of course, but to a very limited extent. It is manifest that applications of the very short waves will not produce any appreciable effect upon the wireless art.

"Errors" Retard Wireless Power.

What about the possibilities of power transmission by wireless' the inquirer asked.
Here again Mr. Tesla blames "a strange misconception of the experts" and "grievous errors" for retarding the idea. He believes that when it is accomplished, the power will travel on long waves. He said he could vouch that the scheme of wireless power transmission is entirely practical.

"The application of short waves for power purposes," said Mr. Tesla; "involves complicated and expensive apparatus for rectification or frequency transformation, which would make any serious attempt to carry out a project of this kind much more difficult from an economical point of view."

When will television come around the corner? he was asked.
"It ought to be with us soon, and some day it will be on a par of perfection with broadcasting of music." Then with a circular sweep of his arm and added, "There will be large pictures thrown on the wall."

All matter is made out of photons, so yes, all is Light.

nothing "magical" about it.

quantum science is quantum science

Magic is science that is not understood.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke


Tesla knew how to Pierce the Veil of the Aether...

Thanks for the contribution. I suppose one chooses how
certain materials should be presented.

He was known to be somewhat of an odd ball and an
eccentric so who knows but I'm sure he knew
he would need to present his ideas in a professional manner
that would up hold his academic background.

Thread: 'Olympian Gossip' -a poem by Nikola Tesla

Here's the part about Tesla vs new age stuff...
It's in his autobiography.

Shortly before the war, when the exhibition of my turbines in this city elicited widespread comment in the technical papers, I anticipated that there would be a scramble among manufacturers to get hold of the invention and I had particular designs on that man from Detroit who has an uncanny faculty for accumulating millions. So confident was I, that he would turn up some day, that I declared this as certain to my secretary and assistants. Sure enough, one fine morning a body of engineers from the Ford Motor Company presented themselves with the request of discussing with me an important project. "Didn't I tell you?," I remarked triumphantly to my employees, and one of them said, "You are amazing, Mr. Tesla. Everything comes out exactly as you predict." As soon as these hard-headed men were seated, I of course, immediately began to extol the wonderful features of my turbine, when the spokesman interrupted me and said, "We know all about this, but we are on a special errand. We have formed a psychological society for the investigation of psychic phenomena and we want you to join us in this undertaking." I suppose these engineers never knew how near they came to being fired out of my office.

Ever since I was told by some of the greatest men of the time, leaders in science whose names are immortal, that I am possessed of an unusual mind, I bent all my thinking faculties on the solution of great problems regardless of sacrifice. For many years I endeavoured to solve the enigma of death, and watched eagerly for every kind of spiritual indication. But only once in the course of my existence have I had an experience which momentarily impressed me as supernatural. It was at the time of my mother's death. I had become completely exhausted by pain and long vigilance, and one night was carried to a building about two blocks from our home. As I lay helpless there, I thought that if my mother died while I was away from her bedside, she would surely give me a sign. Two or three months before, I was in London in company with my late friend, Sir William Crookes, when spiritualism was discussed and I was under the full sway of these thoughts. I might not have paid attention to other men, but was susceptible to his arguments as it was his epochal work on radiant matter, which I had read as a student, that made me embrace the electrical career. I reflected that the conditions for a look into the beyond were most favourable, for my mother was a woman of genius and particularly excelling in the powers of intuition. During the whole night every fibre in my brain was strained in expectancy, but nothing happened until early in the morning, when I fell in a sleep, or perhaps a swoon, and saw a cloud carrying angelic figures of marvellous beauty, one of whom gazed upon me lovingly and gradually assumed the features of my mother. The appearance slowly floated across the room and vanished, and I was awakened by an indescribably sweet song of many voices. In that instant a certitude, which no words can express, came upon me that my mother had just died. And that was true. I was unable to understand the tremendous weight of the painful knowledge I received in advance, and wrote a letter to Sir William Crookes while still under the domination of these impressions and in poor bodily health. When I recovered, I sought for a long time the external cause of this strange manifestation and, to my great relief, I succeeded after many months of fruitless effort. I had seen the painting of a celebrated artist, representing allegorically one of the seasons in the form of a cloud with a group of angels which seemed to actually float in the air, and this had struck me forcefully. It was exactly the same that appeared in my dream, with the exception of my mother's likeness. The music came from the choir in the church nearby at the early mass of Easter morning, explaining everything satisfactorily in conformity with scientific facts.

This occurred long ago, and I have never had the faintest reason since to change my views on psychical and spiritual phenomena, for which there is no foundation. The belief in these is the natural outgrowth of intellectual development. Religious dogmas are no longer accepted in their orthodox meaning, but every individual clings to faith in a supreme power of some kind. We all must have an ideal to govern our conduct and insure contentment, but it is immaterial whether it be one of creed, art, science, or anything else, so long as it fulfils the function of a dematerialising force. It is essential to the peaceful existence of humanity as a whole that one common conception should prevail.

While I have failed to obtain any evidence in support of the contentions of psychologists and spiritualists, I have proved to my complete satisfaction the automatism of life, not only through continuous observations of individual actions, but even more conclusively through certain generalisations. these amount to a discovery which I consider of the greatest moment to human society, and on which I shall briefly dwell. I got the first inkling of this astonishing truth when I was still a very young man, but for many years I interpreted what I noted simply as coincidences. Namely, whenever either myself or a person to whom I was attached, or a cause to which I was devoted, was hurt by others in a particular way, which might be best popularly characterised as the most unfair imaginable, I experienced a singular and undefinable pain which, for the want of a better term, I have qualified as "cosmic" and shortly thereafter, and invariably, those who had inflicted it came to grief. After many such cases I confided this to a number of friends, who had the opportunity to convince themselves of the theory of which I have gradually formulated and which may be stated in the following few words:

Our bodies are of similar construction and exposed to the same external forces. This results in likeness of response and concordance of the general activities on which all our social and other rules and laws are based. We are automata entirely controlled by the forces of the medium, being tossed about like corks on the surface of the water, but mistaking the resultant of the impulses from the outside for the free will. The movements and other actions we perform are always life preservative and though seemingly quite independent from one another, we are connected by invisible links. So long as the organism is in perfect order, it responds accurately to the agents that prompt it, but the moment that there is some derangement in any individual, his self-preservative power is impaired. Everybody understands, of course, that if one becomes deaf, has his eyes weakened, or his limbs injured, the chances for his continued existence are lessened. But this is also true, and perhaps more so, of certain defects in the brain which drive the automaton, more or less, of that vital quality and cause it to rush into destruction. A very sensitive and observant being, with his highly developed mechanism all intact, and acting with precision in obedience to the changing conditions of the environment, is endowed with a transcending mechanical sense, enabling him to evade perils too subtle to be directly perceived. When he comes in contact with others whose controlling organs are radically faulty, that sense asserts itself and he feels the "cosmic" pain. The truth of this has been borne out in hundreds of instances and I am inviting other students of nature to devote attention to this subject, believing that through combined systematic effort, results of incalculable value to the world will be attained.