Centralinformationasean.com, 5/12/2024, Science ,In this original and revolutionizing discussion, Nikola Tesla gives us something really new to think about.
First,Does the moon rotate on its axis? Second, Is the Franklin pointed lightning rod correct in theory and operation?
Third, Do wireless signals fly thru space by means of so-called Hertzian waves in the ether, or are they propagated thru the earth at prodigious velocity by means of earth-bound oscillations? World-famous conundrums these–questions which have been answered in many ways by some of the greatest scientists.
Nikola Tesla explains these three predominant scientific fallacies in a masterly way, so that everyone can understand.
For over a century and a half the whole world, educated and otherwise, thought that the moon revolved around its axis. Nikola Tesla in the present highly instructive article disproves that theory and will convince scientists and all others alike that the moon does no such thing.
For thousands of years it was thought that the sun and stars revolved around the earth and all kinds of experimental proofs were furnished to substantiate this theory.
The illustrious Galileo thought different, and everyone today knows that the earth revolves around the sun.
So it is with Tesla’s discovery.
Tesla also, in the second part of the present paper, shows us that the ancient and time-worn theory advanced by Benjamin Franklin as to the lightning conductor is not substantially correct as viewed by latter day science.
It will come as a shock even to our professors that the lightning rod actually aids the lightning in hitting the building.
The reason is that the lightning rod helps in ionizing (making conductive) the surrounding air.
Mr. Tesla has devised a lightning conductor with no points, and there is no doubt whatsoever that his theory is right.
Scientists the world over will acknowledge this very shortly.
Nikola Tesla explodes still another popular delusion, viz., that wireless waves follow the curvature of the earth when messages are transmitted, let us say from a point in the United States to a point in Europe.
In his revolutionary arguments, supported by facts as well as by logic, Tesla shows why the currents do not travel around the earth but directly thru it. In other words, Tesla maintains that wireless communication is accomplished Only thru the medium of the earth itself.
His contention seems very sound. If it were not so, let every wireless station, commercial or otherwise, do away with its ground connection.
None could then operate as is well known, except perhaps over very limited distances.
( Sholihul)
