"As Tesla experimented with a 1.5 MW system in 1899 at Colorado Springs, he was amazed to find that pulses of electricity he sent out passed across the entire globe returned with “undiminished strength.” He said, “It was a result so unbelievable that the revelation at first almost stunned me.” This verified the tremendous efficiency of his peculiar method of pumping current into a spherical ball to charge it up before discharging it as a pulse of electrical energy, a “longitudinal” acoustic-type of compression wave, rather than an electromagnetic Hertzian-type of transverse wave."
I'm sure tesla was talking about Longitudinal waves when he invented his wireless transmission of electrical energy. If no one has ever successfully reproduced his expirment, how do we know wireless is impossible?
2007-03-16 04:12:53 · 2 answers · asked by nikola 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Check out the video below. As you'll see, others have tried to observe & verify Tesla's longitudinal wave claim.
Enjoy.
2007-03-17 02:38:36 · answer #1 · answered by TheElectrician 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no longitudinal electromagnetic wave. It violates the laws of physics . The only longitudinal EM waves that can form are either in a plasma or a wave guide but not in free space.
2007-03-16 04:28:24 · answer #2 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋