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I just typed in on Google nikola tesla faster than the speed of light and I got a ton of results, one of which was this paper found at [ link to www.scribd.com] In this paper Faster than Light, it purts forth a good argument that Nikola Tesla insisted that the speed of light was not 186,000 miles per second, or that it was not a limit at least. Faster than Light
By HUGO GERNSBACK
It may come as a shock, to most students of science, to learn that there are still in the world some scientists who believe that there are speeds greater than that of light.
Since the advent of Einstein, most scientists and physicists have taken it for granted that
speeds greater than 186,300 miles per second are impossible in the universe. Indeed,
one of the principal tenets of the relativity theory is that the mass of a body increases
with its speed, and would become infinite at the velocity of light. Hence, a greater
velocity is impossible.
Among those who deny that this is true, there is Nikola Tesla, well known for his
hundreds of important inventions. The induction motor and the system of distributing
alternating current are but a few of his great contributions to modern science. In 1892,
he made his historic experiments in Colorado; where he manufactured, for the first time,
artificial lightning bolts 100 feet long, and where he was able, by means of high-
frequency currents, to light electric lamps at a distance of three miles without the use of
any wires whatsoever.
Talking to me about these experiments recently, Dr. Tesla revealed that he had made a
number of surprising discoveries in the high-frequency electric field and that, in the
course of these experiments, he had become convinced that he propagated frequencies
at speeds higher than the speed of light.
In his patent No. 787,412, filed May 16, 1900, Tesla showed that the current of his
transmitter passed over the earth's surface with a speed of 292,830 miles per second,
while radio waves proceed with the velocity of light Tesla holds, however, that our
present "radio" waves are not true Hertzian waves, but really sound waves.
He informs me, further, that he knows of speeds several times greater than that of light, and that he has designed apparatus with which be expects to project so-called electrons with a speed equal to twice that of light.
Coming from so eminent a source, the statement should be given due consideration.
After all, abstract mathematics is one thing, and actual experimentation is another. Not
so many years ago, one of the world's greatest scientists of the time proved.
mathematically that it is impossible to fly a heavier-than-air machine. Yet we are flying
plenty of airplanes today.
Tesla contradicts a part of the relativity theory emphatically, holding that mass is
unalterable; otherwise, energy could be produced from nothing, since the kinetic energy
acquired in the fall of a body would be greater than that necessary to lift it at a small
velocity.
It is within the bounds of possibility that Einstein's mathematics of speeds greater than light may be wrong. Tesla has been right many times during the past, and he may be proven right in the future. In any event, the statement that there are speeds faster than light is a tremendous one, and opens up entirely new vistas to science.
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