Forbidden Science

From Part 10

Tesla, a Man for Three Centuries

Our Debt to the Eccentric Croatian Inventor Continues to Grow

Eugene Mallove, Ph.D.

We are far from the time of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Nikola Tesla, when experiment and the concrete technological device based on experiment were the ultimate arbiter of  Truth. Today we live in establishment science’s world of Absolute Fiction. In this world, hundreds of experiments that show irrefutable evidence, for example, of nuclear reactions occurring at low-energy (LENR/“cold fusion”) can be dumped into the trash bin of alleged scientific failure. When Tesla worked, another very serious component of the universe was very much a critical topic of discussion among physicists--the aether (or ether). This was the postulated finely structured substance that simply had to exist if there was to be any hope of explaining how light waves were to travel through what otherwise would be just a vacuum of absolute “nothingness.”
     Establishment science long ago threw out any serious discussion of the aether and its measurement, but the spirit of Tesla lives and there is much unfinished business at hand for physics. We must remember that when Tesla lived and worked, the aether was inextricably connected with the concept of electricity--in addition to it being the medium of the transmission of light and other hertzian electromagnetic waves. The idea of “particles of electricity”--later to be discovered and called “electrons”—was not yet in vogue. Electricity was thought of as something like an intangible fluid, literally “etheric.” In a seminal talk before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) in May 1891, at what was then called Columbia College in New York City, Tesla spoke these telling words: “Of all the forms of nature’s immeasurable, all-pervading energy, which ever and ever change and move, like a soul animates an innate universe, electricity and magnetism are perhaps the most fascinating. . . . We know that electricity acts like an incompressible fluid; that there must be a constant quantity of it in nature; that it can neither be produced or destroyed . . . and that electricity and ether phenomena are identical.” Tesla noted that this aether was everywhere moving and dynamic. The use of the aether would be the salvation of humankind, he said: “. . . with the power derived from it, with every form of energy obtained without effort, from stores forever inexhaustible, humanity will advance with giant strides. It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.”
     Of course, in Tesla’s lifetime the wheelwork of nature--the aether--was not harnessed. It was to become very much out of style to be talking about an aether. The advent of Albert Einstein’s relativity theory had begun to abolish the aether from the physicists’ vocabulary in the 1920s and 1930s. Yet when TIME magazine put Tesla on its cover to celebrate his seventy-fifth birthday (July 10, 1931), it referred to Tesla’s work toward harnessing an “entirely new and unsuspected [energy] source.” Was this from the aether? Perhaps.
     Tesla had long hoped to be able to distribute electric power globally through the medium of the aether, power generated at the transmission point with benign and unlimited sources such as hydroelectric power. The power would be consumed only as needed at millions of receivers, being carried to each within the resonating cavity surrounding the body of the earth. Such power would be transmitted not by “electromagnetic radiation,” as we ordinarily think of it (oscillating electric and magnetic waves transverse to the direction of propagation), but by longitudinal waves, which were more akin to longitudinal pressure waves in the air--the propagation of sound. He had conducted many experiments that seemed to show that such non-electromagnetic power propagation was possible. Indeed, Tesla illuminated electric bulbs at good distances.
     Consider Tesla’s special induction coils, called “Tesla coils” these days. For a long time, good experimenters have been puzzled about the workings of Tesla coils. It seems that Tesla coils are rich, indeed, with clues to the very structure of a dynamic aether. Recent experiments touch on the deep issue of the aether and its relation to what are evidently two basic forms of electricity, the accepted form (massbound, the flow of electrons), and the other not accepted at all by conventional science: massfree, capable of flowing in and around wires, as well as being transmitted as Tesla waves through gas media and vacuum. The massfree form of electricity might be called “cold electricity.”
     This hearkens back to another fundamental issue, the very nature of some nonstandard biological energies, which are also presumed not to exist and are the subject of much mockery these days. I have become convinced that these biophysical energies are integral to the nature of aether. When tracing back the origins of twentieth-century conceptions of organisms as purely biochemical systems, one comes to the argument about “vitalism,” or “animal electricity,” that originated in the scientific controversy between L. Galvani and A. Volta in the late eighteenth century. It turns out that much was lost in the marginalizing of Galvani’s “animal electricity” ideas of unipolar (single wire) electric flow by the ascendant bipolar battery conceptions posed by Volta, which dominate our understanding of electricity today. But the conceptions of Tesla are in the process of returning in, this, Tesla’s third century. Tesla was very interested in the electrical component of life-energy, as was another aether theorist, Lord Kelvin. Thus, we owe a lot to Tesla, not only for the technology that runs our world today but also for the future energy sources that will abolish the Hydrocarbon Fuel Age and the future biomedicine that will seamlessly integrate Occidental medicine with the wisdom of the East. These matters can be adjudicated in laboratory experiment, even as the essentially psychotic scientific establishment--ignorant of the facts of its own history and only too willing to insult some of its greatest benefactors--ignores it all.

Introduction

Part ONE • Stacking the Deck

1. Debunking the Debunkers: Do the So-called Skeptics Have a Secret Agenda?
• David Lewis

2. “Voodoo Science” on Trial: Challenging the Establishment’s Kangaroo Court of Alternative Science
• Eugene Mallove, Ph.D.

3. The Establishment Strikes Back: Never Mind the Evidence, The Learning Channel Wants to Eradicate the Looming Atlantis Heresy
• Frank Joseph

4. Inquisition--The Trial of Immanuel Velikovsky: Velikovsky’s Battle to Get His Seminal Book, Worlds in Collision, Published
• Peter Bros


Part TWO • The Past Reconsidered

5. The High Technology of the Ancients: Have We Forgotten Secrets We Once Knew?
• Frank Joseph

6. A Scientist Looks at the Great Pyramid: In a New Book, the Geologist Who Stunned the World by Redating the Sphinx Turns His Attention to Another Enigma Nearby
• Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D.

7. Precession Paradox: Was Newton Wrong? The Author of a Startling New Book Reexamines the Evidence
• Walter Cruttenden

8. The Dogon as Physicists: Do the Symbols of This Enigmatic African People Show Knowledge of Theoretical Physics?
• Laird Scranton

9. The Astronomers of Nabta Playa: New Discoveries Reveal Astonishing Prehistoric Knowledge
• Mark H. Gaffney


Part THREE • Challenges to Traditional Physics

10. Tesla, a Man for Three Centuries: Our Debt to the Eccentric Croatian Inventor Continues to Grow
• Eugene Mallove, Ph.D.

11. Tom Bearden Fights for Revolutionary Science: A New Energy Pioneer Lays the Groundwork for Coming Discoveries
• William P. Eigles

12. Sonofusion: Can the Energy of the Sun Be Captured in a Bottle--Like an Ancient Genie--and Provide Us with a Future of Limitless Energy?
• John Kettler

13. Escape from Gravity: Is the Ancient Promise of Freedom from the Pull of Earth Alive and Well at NASA and Elsewhere?
• Jeane Manning

14. Power from the Nightside: Could Earth Itself Be Trying to Provide the Clean Abundant Energy We Need?
• Susan B. Martinez, Ph.D.

15. Techno Invisibility: Can Newly Emerging Technology Make Solid Objects Vanish?
• John Kettler

16. Weather Wars: Is There an Unnatural Side to Natural Disasters?
• John Kettler


Part FOUR • Spiritual Science

17. The Sensitivities of Water: Startling New Evidence That Water Can Reflect Thought and More
• Jeane Manning

18. The Power of Water: Are Its Secrets the Keys to Solving Today’s Most Vexing Problems?
• Jeane Manning

19. Madame Curie and the Spirits: What Are We to Make of the Strange Alliance between a Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist and a Notorious Medium?
• John Chambers

20. India’s Mystic Military: Are Fleeing Tibetan Monks Changing the Balance of Power on the Indian Subcontinent?
• John Kettler


Part FIVE • Astronomy Farther Out

21. Is the Big Bang Dead? A Maverick Astronomer Challenges Reigning Theory on the Origins of the Universe
• Amy Acheson

22. The Cycles of Danger: Does New Research Mean We Are Headed for Trouble?
• William Hamilton III


Part SIX • Medicine of Another Kind

23. Healing Vibes: Dr. Richard Gerber Is Still Convinced There’s More to Getting Well than the Medical Establishment Can Comprehend
• Cynthia Logan

24. The Malady in Heart Medicine: A Doctor Shatters the Myths behind Popular Treatments for Heart Disease
• Cynthia Logan

25. Energy Medicine in the Operating Room: A New Age Pioneer Takes Her Intuition Where Few Have Dared to Go
• Cynthia Logan

26. Getting Left and Right Brains Together: Author and Doctor Leonard Shlain Believes the Future Is Where Art and Physics Intersect
• Cynthia Logan

27. X-Ray Vision and Far Beyond: Troy Hurtubise’s Amazing Lights Are Said to See through Walls and to Heal as Well
• John Kettler

28. The Biology of Transcendence: Do Newly Discovered Retrotransposons Hold the Key to Our Liberation?
• John Kettler


Part SEVEN • Paranormal Possibilities

29. Paranormal Paratrooper: For David Morehouse, the Military’s Psychic Warfare Program Was Much More Than an Exotic Experiment. It Was His Mission, yet It Nearly Destroyed Him
• J. Douglas Kenyon

30. Psychic Discoveries since the Cold War: Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder Revisit the Revolutionary Research of Their Classic Study
• Len Kasten

31. When Science Meets the Psychics: New Research Buttresses the Challenge of Mind to Matter
• Patrick Marsolek

32. Rupert Sheldrake’s Seven Senses: A Candid Conversation with a Scientific Iconoclast
• Cynthia Logan

33. Telephone Telepathy: Skeptical Outrage Notwithstanding, Rupert Sheldrake Seems to Be Winning the Argument for ESP
• John Kettler


Part EIGHT • The ET Factor

34. Back-Engineering Roswell: An American Computer Maker Fights for Its Right to Exploit Alien Technology
• John Kettler

35. The Fight for Alien Technology: Jack Shulman Remains Undaunted by Mounting Threat
• John Kettler


Part NINE • Other Dimensions

36. Altered States: Recent Research Sheds New Light on the Inner Reaches of Human Consciousness
• Patrick Marsolek

37. Searching for the Unifying Field: Author Lynne McTaggart Is Tracking the World’s Most Exotic Research toward Discovery of a Secret Force
• Cynthia Logan

38. The Mind-Matter Connection: Did the Long-Sought Smoking Gun of Scientific Proof Finally Appear on September 11, 2001?
• John Kettler

39. Dr. Quantum’s Big Ideas: Fred Alan Wolf Searches for Concrete Answers to Ephemeral Questions
• Cynthia Logan


Part TEN • The Future

40. Further Explorations of the Crack in the Cosmic Egg: Joseph Chilton Pearce’s New Book Probes the Biology of Transcendence
• Cynthia Logan

41. Challenging the Reality Consensus: A Popular New Movie Has People Thinking about the Unthinkable
• Patrick Marsolek

42. From Apollo to Zero Point: When Is a Walk on the Moon Not the Highest Point in Life?
• J. Douglas Kenyon

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

J. Douglas Kenyon is the editor and publisher of Atlantis Rising and the editor of the bestselling Forbidden History and Forbidden Religion. He lives in Montana.

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"If 'fringe science', or 'voodoo science' (to use a couple of establishment buzzwords) interests you; if you are open to non-traditional views of the universe (potential anti-gravity, archeo-astronomy, alien life forms, and ESP among others); if you simply want to see the 'other side' of the arguments; this book should be an interesting read for you."
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"This book serves as a compelling, if controversial, introduction to the true history of alternative and New Science research, as well as fascinating possible truths about the world we live in."
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"In these pages, you will find clearly delineated arguments as to why the materialistic prejudice of the scientific establishment, committed to preserving funding for its own projects, is detrimental to any scientific inquiry that thinks outside the box."
Chiwah, The Light Connection, June 2008

"This volume may interest those who study public attitudes toward science or the boundary between science and pseudoscience."
F.N. Egerton, emeritus, University of Wisconsin, Choice, Vol. 46, No. 01, Sep 2008

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ANCIENT MYSTERIES / NEW SCIENCE

Following the model of his bestselling Forbidden History and Forbidden Religion, J. Douglas Kenyon has assembled forty-two essays by nineteen researchers from his bimonthly journal, Atlantis Rising, material that explores science and technology that has been suppressed by the orthodox scientific community--from the true function of the Great Pyramid and the megaliths at Nabta Playa to Immanuel Velikovsky’s astronomical insights, free energy from space, cold fusion, and Rupert Sheldrake’s research into telepathy and ESP.

There is an organized war going on in science between materialistic theory and anything that could be termed spiritual or metaphysical. For example, Masaru Emoto’s research into the energetics of water, although supported by photographic evidence, has been scoffed at by mainstream science because he has asserted that humans affect their surroundings with their thoughts. The materialism or absolute skepticism of the scientific establishment is detrimental to any scientific inquiry that thinks outside the box. This mentality is interested in preserving funding for its own projects, those that will not rock the establishment. From Tesla’s discovery of alternating current to Robert Schoch’s re-dating of the Sphinx, this book serves as a compelling introduction to the true history of alternative and New Science research.

J. Douglas Kenyon is the editor and publisher of Atlantis Rising and the editor of the bestselling Forbidden History and Forbidden Religion. He lives in Montana.