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The conspicuous vacuum created where the mention of Tesla should have been, as one who made such important contributions to science, technology, and the quality of our lives, raises ominous questions as to why his memory became virtually stricken from history almost the day after his death. What did Tesla discover which threatened the powers that be? Since we already know about the many patented inventions, my assumption has always been that the unknown, still classified works were far in advance of the published ones, and were in realization of projects which Tesla had previously announced or had already tested and developed, but had not yet “…given to the world.”
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These inventions and ideas, “the very existence of which is categorically denied by establishment and corporate scientists,”
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were, according to Lyne, centered on five things:

1. exotic flying machines based on electrodynamic propulsion methods;

2. discoveries implying that that energy could be extracted from the medium, or environment;

3. transmutation of the chemical elements;

4. an “alternative ‘ether’ physics and science”;

5. Tesla’s “Dynamic Theory of Gravity.”
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Lyne believes that the first of these elements was the real unifying motivation to much of Tesla’s lifelong research, particularly in his later years, and the other four elements were made in aid of the first.

Citing an article in the September 22, 1940 edition of the
New York Times
by William L. Laurence, Lyne notes that Tesla claimed to have discovered a new force which he called the “teleforce.” Expanding on his famous Colorado Springs experiments, Tesla explored this force in discoveries and experiments between 1900 and 1940, claiming to have found a new way to create waves in the atmosphere, a “’new’ way to create a ‘very great electrical force,’” as well as a new way to magnify that force, and a new means of electrical propulsion.
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Indeed, Tesla had maintained this vision of an electrical flying machine since the 1870s, when it first occurred to him as a student. Lyne observes that it was to realize this machine that was the reason Tesla “said he originally entered the field of electrical science in 1875 in the first place.”
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In other words, Lyne believes that the creation of an electrical flying machine is the unifying theme and ultimate motivation of all of Tesla’s life’s work.

In a lecture in 1938, Tesla stated that the central theory of all the above five elements – his “dynamic theory of gravity” – had been worked out by 1893.
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In that lecture, Tesla referred to two significant discoveries that he planned to “give to the world” when he had completed “his secret developments.”
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Those two discoveries, according to Lyne, were the Dynamic Theory of Gravity and idea of “environmental energy,” i.e., the idea that “there is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment.”
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Lest Tesla’s assertions be thought to be merely quirky restatements of relativity, it must be remembered that

Tesla considered his theory wholly inconsistent with the theory of relativity, and with the modern theory concerning the structure of the atom and the mutual interconversion of matter and energy. Tesla continuously attacked the validity of Einstein’s work; and until two or three years before his death he ridiculed the belief that energy could be obtained from matter.
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In a certain sense this is due to Tesla’s habit of thinking in terms of
nineteenth century
aether physics, but in another, it is due to the nature of the discoveries he was making since his Colorado Springs experiments, discoveries that took him into the most avante garde areas.

While clearly derived from his Colorado Springs experiments, Tesla’s Dynamic Theory of Gravity did not get any public airing until that 1938 lecture, given to the Institute of Immigrant Welfare on May 12, 1938. This, in Tesla’s own words, is all that is publicly known of that theory:

During the succeeding two years (1893 and 1894) of intense concentration I was fortunate enough to make two far reaching discoveries. The first was a dynamic theory of gravity, which I have worked out in all details and hope to give to the world very soon. It explains the causes of this force and the motions of heavenly bodies under its influence so satisfactorily that it will put an end to idle speculation and false conceptions, as that of curved space….

Only the existence of a field of force can account for the motions of the bodies as observed, and its assumption dispenses with space curvature. All literature on this subject is futile and destined to oblivion. So are all attempts to explain the workings of the universe without recognizing the existence of the ether and the indispensable function it plays in the phenomena.

My second discovery was of a physical truth of the greatest importance. As I have searched the entire scientific records in more than a half dozen languages for a long time without finding the least anticipation, I consider myself the original discoverer of this truth, which can be expressed by the statement: There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment.

…. It applies rigorously to molecules and atoms as well as to the largest heavenly bodies, and to all matter in the universe in any phase of its existence from its very formation to its ultimate disintegration.
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The idea of “environmental energy” may seem obscure, but the radical nature of Tesla’s assertion may be appreciated if one considers his lifetime’s preoccupation: electricity. What Tesla is in effect saying through his (always) carefully chosen language is that in any electrical circuit or conductor, it is not so much the power “source” that produces the power, but rather that such a source, along with the parameters of the circuit itself, is an
open
system transducing power from the medium. This is a revolutionary statement to make, especially in 1938.

But there is a hint of Tesla’s advanced views on the aether and what his “dynamic theory” of gravity may have entailed, if his 1938 statements are viewed in the wider context of previous developments in general and especially the experiments of Lord Kelvin in particular. This is his clear allusion to the motion of heavenly bodies and to the fact that his twin observations are
scale invariant
, i.e., applicable to all sizes of matter from atomic to planetary scales. Thus it would seem that Tesla appears to be viewing the aether in not only a dynamic sense, but as a structure of
rotation,
of
vortices.
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These are significant indicators that Tesla was already thinking in terms of higher order topologies than relativity theory.
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To see Tesla as a conventional 19
^th
century aether physicist in his late life is, however, to massively distort the picture. Tesla wrote an unpublished article toward the end of his life called “Man’s Greatest Achievement,” in which he states some very unusual, very new, and, as it turns out, very old,
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views of the aether:

Long ago (man) recognized that all perceptible matter comes from a primary substance, or a tenuity beyond conception, filling all space, the
Akasa
or lumeniferous ether, which is acted upon by the life-giving
Prana
or creative force, calling into existence, in never ending cycles, all things and phenomena. The primary substance, thrown into infinitesimal whirls of prodigious velocity, becomes gross matter; the force subsiding, the motion ceases and matter disappears, reverting to the primary substance.

Can Man control this grandest, most awe-inspiring of all process in nature? …

If he could do this, he would have powers almost unlimited and supernatural….He could alter the size of this planet, control its seasons, guide it along any path he might choose… He could cause planets to collide and produce suns and stars…

To create and to annihilate material substance… would be the supreme manifestation of the power of Man’s mind, his most complete triumph over the physical world, his crowning achievement, which would place him beside his Creator, make him fulfill his ultimate destiny.
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As will be seen in chapter five, Tesla’s views eerily echo those of “scalar” physicist Tom Bearden.
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Tesla’s view of the aether shows his thinking to be far from the inert and static aether of nineteenth century physicists, or even the kind of aether envisioned by Max Planck and other physicists, who envisioned a quasi-hydro dynamic aether that was “drug along” with planets. As this passage makes clear, Tesla envisioned it as a transmutative aether analogous to electrical carriers “immersed in an insulating fluid” whose properties varied according to the local environment.
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But what does all this mean?

Here, it is best to cite Lyne’s catalogue of Tesla’s own statements, followed by Lyne’s own summary of their implications. Lyne assembles a series of quotations by Tesla to demonstrate eight points:

1. “The most probable medium filling space is one consisting of
independent carriers immersed in an insulating fluid.
”

2. “In his experiments he dwells first on some phenomena produced by
electrostatic force, which he considers in the light of modern theories to be the most important force in nature for us to investigate.”

3.
“He illustrates how mechanical motions are produced by a varying electrostatic force acting through a gaseous medium,”

4. “One of the
most interesting results
arrived at in pursuing these experiments, is
the demonstration of the fact that a gaseous medium upon which vibration is impressed by rapid changes of electrostatic potential, is rigid.”

5. “If through this medium enormous electrostatic stresses are assumed to act, which vary rapidly in intensity, it would allow the motion of a body through it, yet it would be rigid and elastic, although the fluid itself might be devoid of these properties.”

6. “…on the assumption that the independent carriers are of any configuration such that the fluid resistance to motion in one direction is greater than in another, a stress of that nature would cause the carriers to arrange themselves in groups, since they would
turn to each other their sides of the greatest electrical density,
in which position the
fluid resistance to approach would be smaller than to receding.”

7. “If in a medium of the above characteristics a brush would be formed by a steady potential, an exchange of the carriers would go on continuously, and there would be less carriers per unit volume in the brush than in the space at some distance from the electrode, this corresponding to rarefaction.”

8. “If the potentials were rapidly changing, the result would be very different;
the higher the frequency of the pulses, the slower would be the exchange of carriers; finally, the motion of translation through measurable space would cease and, with a sufficiently high frequency and intensity of the stress, the carriers would be
drawn towards the electrode, and compression would result
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Lyne summarizes the practical nature of these insights as follows:

1. Mechanical motions can be produced by varying electrostatic force acting through a gaseous (ether) medium, which thereby becomes rigidified, yet allows solid bodies to pass through.

2. Under influence of stress in one direction… the carriers may group together, forming tubes of force, creating greater ease of movement in that direction.

3. When a (direct current) brush is created by a steady potential, a continuous exchange of carriers is created corresponding to ether rarefaction, as the tubes of force are drawn into the conductor.

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With a sufficiently high frequency and stress intensity in the opposite direction, carrier exchange is blocked by ether compression, forcing the tubes of force to dissolve in the conductors of the ship, imparting electromagnetic momentum. The system, using the two kinds of potentials (direct current and alternating current), is
known as “p2”.
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The last point assumes a particular significance in the light not only of Tesla’s quest for an electrically propelled flying machine, but also, as we shall see, in the light of the known design and operating principles of the Bell.

Lyne, summarizing Tesla’s views on the aether and electrical circuits as
open
systems, notes that electrical motive force is not due merely to “varying currents” but to “rarefaction and compression of the ether” brought about by rapidly varying and different
kinds
of currents.
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The implication was that, while as early as 1884 Tesla had done calculations for his flying machine when he first immigrated to the United States,
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he later claimed that his “dirigible torpedo” could achieve speeds of 300 miles per second, or an incredible 1,080,000 miles per hour!
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The idea of the compression and rarefaction of the aether via electrical stress caused by two types of electrical potential, coupled with the idea of the
structure
of matter being nothing but vorticular motion in that aether, makes Tesla’s views far ahead of their time. Indeed, by discovering the twin characteristics of the aether as longitudinal compression and rarefaction, as well as vorticular motion, Tesla laid the foundations of “scalar physics” as we shall see when we examine the work of Tom Bearden. Tesla actually went so far as to discover the “endothermic explosion” (cold explosion) uses of such wave phenomena: