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From: 	Aperiodic-at-aol-dot-com[SMTP:Aperiodic-at-aol-dot-com]
Sent: 	Thursday, September 11, 1997 11:50 AM
To: 	tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: 	To Kevin

One last thing.  I'm a senior in high school and last year, for the
first time, a science fair sponsored by IBM was opened up to the
highschool level.  (I did research on chaos thoery and won first place
in the math catagory :-)  ).  Anyway, I was hoping I could enter my coil
in the competition.  There's just one thing, and it seems to bother me. 
The judges that they have aren't the brightest people in the world and
for most of them the first thing they'll ask is, "what practical
purposes does this serve?"  I've already been asked this by some people
and it really frustrates me.  Maybe because I don't have anything that I
can tell them or maybe it's just that I'm think, "hey, I spent three
months building this thing, you don't know what it is, you've never seen
one before, I think it's pretty darn cool, and you want to know what
it's used for."  Personally, I loved making, I love running it, and I
just amazed by my coil.  Sure I think they have a legitiment question,
but I just don't know how to respond.  Anyone want to help?  

I could be of some help.  Seeing that you're already versed in chaos theory,
you're halfway there to explaining what you can do with a Tesla coil.
The phenomena generated by these coils is inherently nonlinear in
nature--i.e., the energy output is not necessarily derived solely from power
inputs (voltage and amperage values).
A TC serves its greatest benefit when investigating Einstein's gravity
complex; the theory that gravational waves are merely larger scalar
components of "normal" EM waves can and have been demonstrated by Tesla coil
research.  Quite recently, such research is utilized while investigating the
properties of solitons leading to some possible discoveries of superluminal
particles/waves.
The question you ask is quite sinewy and complex.  While I am only versed in
intermediate applications of relative nonlinear physics, I have more
information if you are still curious.
I also recommend this website <A HREF="http://www.eskimo-dot-com/~billb/weird.html
">Weird Science / Construction Projects!!</A>.  It is a font of nouveux ideas
and fringe physics philosophies.

Good luck with your research.

Samuel Uncler