Tesla Quote - The Anodic Sun

[BecomingTesla]

Hey everyone, was combing through my archive on Tesla and I found this nice little nugget. Wanted to share it with you.

October 13th, 1932 - The Eternal Source of Energy of the Universe, Origin and Intensity of the Cosmic Rays:
"Rays in every respect similar to the cosmic are produced by my vacuum tubes when operated at pressures of ten millions of volts or more, but even if it were not confirmed by experiment, the theory I advanced in 1897 would afford the simplest and most probable explanation of the phenomena. *Is not the universe with its infinite and impenetrable boundary a perfect vacuum tube of dimensions and power inconceivable? Are not its fiery suns electrodes at temperatures far beyond any we can apply in the puny and crude contrivances of our making? Is it not a fact that the suns and stars are under immense electrical pressures transcending any that man can ever produce and is this not equally true of the vacuum in celestial space?* Finally, can there be any doubt that cosmic dust and meteoric matter present an infinitude of targets acting as reflectors and transformers of energy? If under ideal working conditions, and with apparatus on a scale beyond the grasp of the human mind, rays of surpassing intensity and penetrative power would not be generated, then, indeed, nature has made an unique exception to its laws."

Tesla spent an extraordinary amount of time working on vacuum tubes/chambers - for that reason, he probably cultivated the exact same understanding of the universe that Birkeland did: that it is a massive, inconceivably complex electrical machine, build like a Russian nesting doll of vacuum chambers inside of vacuum chambers, all discharging in connected circuits.

[Scottmana]

While we have progressed profoundly, I often get the feeling that it was not uniform. That is areas like astronomy, we have progressed very little. In the amount of work it takes to restore the progress of men like Tesla, we could say that we have regressed. I fully expect that we will come back around to Tesla's understanding to once again pick up where he left off.

[BecomingTesla]

The reason why astronomy has not progressed is because it is the one field where there is an extraordinary lack of mechanical rationality. Basically since Newton (actually a little time after, after first not everyone accepted his ideas about gravitation), the scientific community has accepted the existence of a force that has absolutely no mechanical explanation. And worse still - that force is supposedly responsible for the bulk of every theoretical model we have for astrophysics and cosmology. Gravity causes stars to ignite from molecule clouds of plasma, it causes planets to revolve and rotate around stars, it causes galaxies to rotate and galaxy clusters to form - all while having absolutely no idea how gravity works mechanically.

Space-time is a *geometrical* construction. It's a metaphysical abstraction, it is a *not* a real, physical, mechanical object. That means that everything that is supposedly done by *space-time*, which we can accurately predict *heuristically*, has no mechanically explanation whatsoever. Basically, we didn't gain any mechanical knowledge in the leap from Newtonian gravitation to General Relativity - in fact, we kind of moved backwards. While Newton rejected action at a distance, and insisted that there must be *some* physical explanation for gravitation, Einstein removed the need altogether for mechanics. We don't need to study the actual mechanism, the metaphysical creation exists just fine mathematically.

Meanwhile, every single orbiting body in this solar system that revolves around the Sun is siting in the vacuum chamber of the heliosphere, immersed in a bath of plasma that is spinning exactly like a vortex that rotates around the Sun in the exact same direction. So exactly why does Nature need "gravitation" to cause the planets to fall around the Sun in their attraction when there is a perfect mechanism that *already exists* in space, performing the exact form of motion necessary to explain the revolution/rotations of the planets? Which, by the way, is exactly what Descartes said drove orbital revolutions, ~300 years before we discovered the heliospheric current sheet. Which Newton said was impossible - he was wrong.

The astrophysical community, for whatever reason, refuses to look out our solar system/galaxy/universe from the perspective of an electrical machine. Geometry has always been enough, and is still enough, to provide an explanation for celestial mechanics, and they're really just not interested in going beyond that. General Relativity works - that's enough. Dark matter, mathematically, works - that's enough. But astronomy and cosmology are ripe for picking, because what we *actually* are dealing with is vacuum chamber being pumped with positive current that flows in as *cosmic rays* through the heliopause down into the poles of the Sun, and being discharged through a plasmatic anode into the chamber. And we know all of this, empirically, through the Ulysses spacecrafts. It's fact. Tesla understood that, Birkeland understood that, and until the rest of the astrophysical community understands that, our understanding of the cosmos is ****ed.

[BecomingTesla]

"Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency" - 1892 (16 years before Birkeland published his work on the aurora):

"Such discharges of very high frequency, which render luminous the air at ordinary pressures, we have probably often occasion to witness in Nature. I have no doubt that if, as many believe, the aurora borealis is produced by sudden cosmic disturbances, such as eruptions at the sun's surface, which set the electrostatic charge of the earth in an extremely rapid vibration the red glow observed is not confined to the upper rarefied strata of the air, but the discharge traverses, by reason of its very high frequency, also the dense atmosphere in the form of a glow, such as we ordinarily produce in a slightly exhausted tube. If the frequency were very low or even more so, if the charge were not at all vibrating, the dense air would break down as in a lightning discharge. Indications of such breaking down of the lower dense strata of the air have been repeatedly observed at the occurrence of this marvelous phenomenon; but if it does occur; it can only be attributed to the fundamental disturbances, which are few in number, for the vibration produced by them would be far too rapid to allow a disruptive break. It is the original and irregular impulses which affect the instruments; the superimposed vibrations probably pass unnoticed."

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Tesla was discussing astrophysics and the role of electricity *years* before Birkeland published anything. His work is a gold mine, waiting to be harvested by astrophysics. Everything that the SAFIRE team is working on right now? Tesla was working on it back in the early 1900s, to verify his hypothesis on the origin of the cosmic rays, which he claims he disclosed in the late *1800s*. SAFIRE is going to continue to find an enormous amount of success, and in the end, they're not going to even know that they're vindicating the man decades after his death.