Re: Re[2]: About the skin effect in humans

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Original poster: "mercurus2000" <mercurus2000-at-cox-dot-net> 

What about the instance of Tesla rolling small electric fireballs down his
coat-arm or liting the air in his lab to  incandescence  without any light
source with people sitting in the lab? Both instances were reported by Mark
Twain (a good friend) and another friend who's name I can't remember. It
would be easy for someone to say he was lying but that seems a normal
response for skeptical people to dismiss something that can't be explained.
I would hope for atleast some interest in these reported effects.
Adam
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Subject: Re[2]: About the skin effect in humans


 > Original poster: Mike Poulton <mpoulton-at-mtptech-dot-com>
 >
 > Tesla list Wrote:
 >  > Original poster: "mercurus2000" <mercurus2000-at-cox-dot-net>
 > <snip fantastic but dubious tales of Tesla's reputed exploits>
 >  > There are many secrets alot of engineers don't know that Tesla
 >  > took to the grave with him, don't underestimate the man's knowledge.:)
 >
 > Tesla's knowledge was relatively basic compared to what is known now
 > about the behavior of high frequency/high voltage electricity, RF
 > waves, and resonance. He was certainly well beyond anyone else in that
 > very narrow field of research, and his pioneering efforts certainly
 > contributed to humanity's knowledge of such phenomena, but he was not
 > some mythical being with superhuman knowledge lost forever upon his
 > death. I would bet significant money that nothing Tesla ever actually
 > did is either unrepeatable nor unexplainable by a good RF engineer
 > given sufficient time and budget.
 >
 > Because he tended to be rather secretive about his work (which
 > certainly hindered his lasting contribution to science), many stories
 > have been conjured up about supposed things Tesla did that "are still
 > unexplained", or "nobody understands", or "are unrepeatable". Most of
 > these mysterious stories lack any sort of historical basis in fact --
 > no sufficient factual record exists to verify that they happened, nor
 > to provide sufficient technical details about what actually took place
 > for anyone to even guess at how it was done. Many such accounts were
 > written by journalists, writers, and other non-technical people who
 > lacked the knowledge necessary to record pertinent technical
 > information. All of Tesla's properly documented research is well
 > understood.
 >
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 > Mike Poulton
 > MTP Technologies
 > mpoulton-at-mtptech-dot-com
 > KC0LLX (70cm AM ATV, 33cm/12cm FM ATV, Omaha, NE)
 >
 >