Superman of Science: Synopsis of Nikola Tesla

According to rumors, Tesla was born into a Serbian family in a village called Smiljan in the middle of the night with lightning and thunder. This village is located near Gospi? in the Lika district of the Austrian Empire (now the Republic of Croatia). His baptismal record states that he was born on June 28, 1856 [N.S. July 10], and that he was baptized by Serbian Orthodox priest Toma Oklobd?ija. His father, Rev. Milutin Tesla, was a priest in the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Diocese of Sremski Karlovci. His mother, named ?uka Mandi?, was the daughter of a Serbian Orthodox priest and was very good at making household hand tools. She could memorize many Serbian epic poems, but she never learned to read. [5] His godfather, Jovan Drenovac, was an army captain who defended the military frontier. Tesla was one of five children, with a brother (Dane, who died in a horse riding accident when Nikolai was five years old) and three sisters (Milka, Angelina and Marica). [6] In 1862 his family immigrated to Gospi?a. Tesla attended school in Karlovac, Croatia, and studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Graz in Austria in 1875. There he studied the applications of alternating current. At least two sources indicate that he received his bachelor's degree from the University of Graz. [7][8] However, his school claimed that he never received a degree. He only attended the first semester of classes during his freshman year and stopped attending classes during that period. [9][10] According to his college roommate, Tesla did not graduate. [11] In 1878, he left Graz and severed all ties with his family. His friends thought he had drowned in Mura. He went to Marbori, Slovenia, where he was first employed as an assistant engineer for a year. During this period he suffered from neurasthenia. His father had been urging him to return to the Charles-Ferdinand branch of the University of Prague, so he went there to study for the summer semester in 1880. However, when his father died, he left the university, completing only one semester

Tesla was an avid reader of various books, memorizing entire books. His memory was like a camera (vivid memory). In his autobiography, Tesla described every detail of the inspiration he experienced. In his early years, he suffered from illness after illness. Suffering strange pain, Blinding flashes of light often appear before his eyes, accompanied by hallucinations. Most of the time, these visions involve a word or a flashing thought; just by hearing a word, he can imagine the actual details of the object. Synesthetes also reported the same symptoms. Tesla was able to mentally visualize his inventions in detail before experimenting with them, a skill now known as visual thinking. Tesla also had rapid recall. This happened in his early life, and this situation had already occurred in his childhood.

On June 30, 1908, a loud noise suddenly broke out on the banks of the Tunguska River in the Siberian forest of the Russian Empire. , a huge mushroom cloud rose into the sky, and a strong white light appeared in the sky. The temperature was instantly scorching, and the vegetation in the center of the explosion was scorched. People 70 kilometers away were severely burned, and some people were deafened by the huge sound. Not only were nearby residents panicked, but also other countries were affected. Many lights in London, England, suddenly went out and there was darkness; people in many European countries saw daylight-like flashes in the night sky; people even felt it in the United States as far away as the other side of the ocean. The ground was shaking...

The specific time of occurrence was 7:17 in the morning, located at 60 degrees 53 minutes 09 seconds north latitude and 101 degrees 53 minutes 40 seconds east longitude, near the Tunguska River (today's Evenki Autonomous Region of the Russian Federation). Its destructive power was later estimated to be equivalent to 15-20 million tons of TNT explosives, and it carbonized more than 60 million trees from roots to treetops in an area of ????2,150 square kilometers.

At around 7:15 a.m. local time, locals in the northwest of Lake Baikal observed a huge fireball streaking across the sky. Its brightness was as bright as the sun. A few minutes later, a bright light illuminated the entire sky. Later shock waves shattered windows within 650 kilometers of the area, and mushroom clouds were observed.

The explosion was recorded by seismic stations across Eurasia, and the pressure instability it caused was even detected by the automatic pressure recorder just invented in Britain at the time. For the next few weeks, the night skies over Europe and western Russia became as bright as day, so bright that there was no need to turn on the lights to read at night. In the United States, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Mount Wilson Observatory observed a decrease in atmospheric transparency for at least several months.

Had the object hit the Earth a few hours later, the explosion should have occurred in Europe instead of the sparsely populated Tunguska region, causing greater casualties.

At that time, the Russian tsarist rule was in turmoil and was unable to organize an investigation. People generally refer to this explosion as the "Tunguska Explosion". After the October Revolution, the Soviet regime sent physicist Kulik to lead an expedition team to the Tunguska region in 1921. They claimed that the explosion was caused by a huge meteorite. But they never found the deep crater where the meteorite fell, nor did they find the meteorite. Only a few dozen flat-bottomed shallow pits were found. Therefore, the "meteor theory" was just a speculation at the time and lacked evidence. Kulik led his team to Tunguska twice for inspection and conducted aerial surveys. He found that the damage caused by the explosion covered an area of ??more than 20,000 square kilometers. At the same time, people also discovered many strange phenomena, such as not all the trees in the center of the explosion fell, but the leaves were scorched; the growth rate of trees in the explosion area accelerated; the width of their annual rings increased from 0.4-2 mm to more than 5 mm; The reindeer in the explosion area all suffered from a strange skin disease called pellagra and so on. Soon after the outbreak of World War II, Kulik joined the army and sacrificed his precious life in the anti-fascist war. The former Soviet Union's investigation of the Tunguska explosion was also forced to suspend. After World War II, the former Soviet physicist Kasayev visited Japan. In December 1945, he arrived in Hiroshima, where the United States dropped the atomic bomb four months ago. Looking at the ruins of Hiroshima, Kasayev suddenly thought of Tunguska. The two obviously have many similarities:

The center of the explosion was damaged, and the trees stood upright without falling.

The deaths of humans and animals in the explosion were caused by nuclear radiation burns.

The shape of the mushroom cloud produced by the explosion is the same, except that the Tunguska one is much larger.

Especially the photos taken in Tunguska of dead trees and burnt branches, which look very similar to the situation on Hiroshima. Therefore, Kasayev came up with a bold idea; he believed that the Tunguska explosion was a nuclear explosion caused by a nuclear-powered spacecraft piloted by aliens that malfunctioned during its landing.

As soon as this theory came out, it immediately aroused strong reactions in the scientific community of the former Soviet Union. There is no shortage of supporters and opponents. Solotov and others further speculated that the spacecraft came to this area to obtain fresh water from Lake Baikal. Others pointed out that the skin disease caused by reindeer in the Tunguska region is very similar to the skin disease caused by radiation in local cattle herds after the United States conducted nuclear testing in New Mexico in 1945. The growth of trees in the Tunguska region is accelerated, and genetic mutations occur in plants and insects. The situation is also the same as that after the United States conducted nuclear tests on the Pacific islands.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Qianyuan sent inspection teams to the Tunguska region many times. Those who believed it was a nuclear explosion and those who insisted on the "meteor theory" claimed that the inspections had found evidence in their favor. No one on either side can convince the other. For the case where the central crater is not found, some people believe that a comet fell, so it can only produce a dust explosion but not a central crater.

In 1973, some American scientists came up with new insights. They believed that the explosion was caused by a black hole in the universe. The explosion was caused by a small black hole orbiting the Pacific Ocean between Iceland and Newfoundland. However, little is known about the nature and characteristics of black holes. It is still doubtful whether "small black holes" exist. Therefore, there is still insufficient evidence for this opinion. To this day, the mystery of the Tunguska explosion remains unsolved.

Another possibility is due to Nikola Tesla's experiments. (It was really inexplicable that it was broadcast on the Central Ten "People" column at 10 pm on June 16 and 17, 2009.)

As a scientific master, Tesla himself has not received commensurate recognition. of glory.

But Tesla was the one who opened the door to electricity and magnetism, was a pioneer in modern electronic engineering, and brought about the second industrial revolution. Apart from his achievements in electromagnetism and engineering, Tesla is also considered to have played a significant role in robotics. , ballistics, information science, nuclear physics and theoretical physics and other fields. Including the Internet we use is also one of its contributions. Putting aside these great contributions, let’s talk about a great invention that is still unused.

In 1889, he also invented the "wireless transmission method." Therefore, we developed and researched this "wireless transmission" technology in the Colorado Spring (Colorado Spring) laboratory in the United States, which converts the current low-frequency (5060Hz) high-voltage current into "high-frequency current" and then uses the air as the transmission medium. to transmit electricity. This "wireless transmission" technology not only saves the cost of transmission cables, but also eliminates losses caused by resistance during power transmission. After eight months of research, Tesla decided to trial build the first power transmission tower called "Tesla Coil" on Long Island.

One of the characteristics of this "coil" is that it can produce "high-voltage alternating current" with both high frequency and low current. This "high-frequency current" can reach another "receiver" through long-distance "wireless transmission" through the air, and has no adverse effects on the human body. Tesla discovered that after "high-voltage current" is converted into "high-frequency high-voltage current", power can be transmitted infinitely. The "Tesla Coil" is an invention that uses this "wireless transmission" technology. It is even a kind of "free energy" that humans have always dreamed of.

The idea of ??a project called the "Wardendyffe Project" hosted by Tesla is to build a power plant on Long Island in the United States that can output 1 million "AC current" "Tesla Coil".

The structure of a "Tesla coil" is basically composed of an induction coil, two extra large capacitors and a coil transformer.

At a press conference, Tesla even demonstrated that the "high-frequency current" output by the "Tesla Coil" flows through his body, causing a "wireless light bulb" to light up.

Tesla mentioned at a congressional hearing that he can already release powerful electricity at any time and anywhere. . . . And was the Tunguska explosion an experiment by Tesla?

Putting aside the unfounded speculations about Tunguska, why has wireless transmission technology never been applied?

Surprisingly, only a few scientists were interested in this impact at the time, probably because the Tunguska region was too remote. If there had been any investigation of the area, those records would have been lost in the tumultuous era that followed—World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the Russian Civil War.

The first existing survey of this area was almost 20 years later. In 1921, Leonid Kulik, a mineralogist from the Russian Academy of Sciences (Росси?йская Акаде?мия Нау?к?), arrived in the Tunguska area to investigate the exact location of the meteorite impact. He persuaded the Soviet government to fund the scientific investigation team on the grounds that the iron on the meteorite might save Soviet industry.

Kulik's investigation team finally found the explosion site in 1927. To their surprise, no cratering occurred. Scorched and dead trees spanned about 50 kilometers. A few trees near the center of the blast were spared, but had their branches and bark stripped off. The fallen tree fell in the opposite direction from the center of the explosion.

Over the next 10 years, three additional teams were sent to the area. Kulik found a small swamp that might be a crater, but after draining the water, he found some tree stumps at the bottom, so he determined it was not a crater. In 1938, Kulik asked someone to take aerial photos of the entire area, which showed that the tree was falling in a huge butterfly-like shape, but he still did not find any craters.

Survey teams in the area in the 1950s and 1960s found tiny glass spheres scattered on the ground. Chemical analysis showed that the ball contained large amounts of nickel and iridium - metals commonly found in meteorites - and determined that they were of extraterrestrial origin.

In addition, a research team led by Gennady Plekhanov found no signs of radiation anomalies, indicating that this was not a natural nuclear self-explosion.

In 1912, due to their contributions to electricity, Tesla and Edison were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics at the same time, but both refused to accept the award because they could not bear to share it with each other. An honor.

In addition to his outstanding achievements in electricity, Tesla’s inventions and discoveries in other areas are also quite amazing. He devoted his life to studying nonlinear problems (that is, input and output are not proportional). He once said that he could divide the earth into two. As early as 1912, Tesla proposed: "If the vibration of an object is correctly combined with the resonant frequency of the earth, it can cause the earth to shake and the ground to rise and fall within a few weeks." In 1935, Tesla In his laboratory, a deep well was drilled and a steel casing was installed in the well. He then plugged the wellhead and introduced vibrations of different frequencies into the well. What's amazing is that at a specific frequency, the ground will suddenly vibrate strongly and cause the collapse of surrounding houses. Some magazines at the time commented: "Tesla used an artificially induced earthquake to almost level New York." This is the famous Tesla experiment. This super transmission effect of small input and strong output is called the Tesla effect, which is the key to geophysical weapons, so Tesla is also the founder of long-distance weapons.

Not only that, Tesla also invented the Tesla transformer, the AC motor, the foundation of modern computers, wireless communications, solar systems, radar devices, robots, death rays, lie detectors, and proposed electromagnetic radio frequency Weapon concepts... These inventions and discoveries transcended the science and technology of the time by several eras, and some theories cannot be perfectly answered even by today's most advanced science and technology. After Tesla's death, the U.S. FBI confiscated all his design drawings and experimental works, and the U.S. military has not stopped studying his papers to this day. This also creates a sense of mystery for Tesla.

Although Tesla was born a genius, his fate was a twist. Tesla’s fortunes were quite bumpy, and his character was quite eccentric, so his evaluation by later generations was obviously lower than his historical achievements. . Tesla died alone in a hotel in 1943.

Tesla’s funeral was held on January 12, 1943, at St. John’s Cathedral in Manhattan, New York City. His body was burned to ashes, and his ashes were taken to Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia in 1957, where he was buried in the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade until this day.

Due to the potential importance of his research, Tesla's family and the Yugoslav Embassy have been working to retrieve the items from U.S. authorities. Eventually, his nephew Sava Kosanovi? obtained ownership of some of his personal belongings, which are displayed in the Nikola Tesla Museum.