Peer review and repeatability are needed before extreme claims are accepted in science, even from very famous people. Unfortunately, some things that Tesla claimed did not pass either of these tests. Argumentum ab auctoritate is used far too often in regards top Tesla's claims. It takes the form of:
Mr T is an authority on a particular topic
Mr T says something about that topic
What he says must be true.
Matt D.
-----Original Message-----
From: William Howard <snakeprior@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla Coil Mailing List <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>; Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sat, Aug 30, 2014 9:09 am
Subject: Re: [TCML] Muscle pain from tesla coil??
Dear Turtle,
" I have produced electrical oscillations which were of such intensity that
when circulating through my arms and chest they have melted wires which
joined my hands, and still I felt no inconvenience. I have energized with
such oscillations a loop of heavy copper wire so powerfully that masses of
metal, and even objects of an electrical resistance specifically greater
than that of human tissue brought close to or placed within the loop, were
heated to a high temperature and melted, often with the violence of an
explosion, and yet into this very space in which this terribly-destructive
turmoil was going on I have repeatedly thrust my head without feeling
anything or experiencing injurious after-effects."
From: The Problem Of Increasing Human Energy. Published in 1900
-Wil
On 30/08/2014 9:02 PM, "Yurtle Turtle via Tesla" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> "Makes you wonder how Tesla lived so long when he dosed himself with x-rays
> and passed huge currents through his body melting steel bars?"
>
> Where, when, and how did he melt steel bars through his body?
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: William Howard <snakeprior@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Tesla Coil Mailing List <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2014 2:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [TCML] Muscle pain from tesla coil??
>
>
> Dear Alex,
> I have a 1kW unit and have not noticed any ill effects from standing near
> it.
>
> I have though been given a mild case of the shakes by discharging it
> through my body and accidental small electrocutions.
>
> Makes you wonder how Tesla lived so long when he dosed himself with x-rays
> and passed huge currents through his body melting steel bars, and placing
> his head inside induction heaters.
>
> My opinion is that if Tesla lived to eighty doing all this and more I am
> perfectly safe - I won't be making myself part of the circuit anymore tho!
>
> Maybe you could sell small coils as Aura clensers? Haha
>
> -Wil
> On 30/08/2014 10:23 AM, "Alex Yuan" <alexhanyuan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I suggested that it might have been the way she sat on the concrete
> > steps or something else she did that day but she was pretty confident
> > that it was the 'energy field' from the coils hahaha maybe next time
> > I'll try to get her to tell me the full 'spiritual' explanation.
> >
> > Strangely enough, she likes seeing the coils
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:18 PM, mddeming--- via Tesla <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Brandon, FWIW
> > >
> > >
> > > Aura:
> > >
> > >
> > > a supposed emanation surrounding the body of a living creature, viewed
> > by mystics, spiritualists, and some practitioners of complementary
> medicine
> > as the essence of the individual, and allegedly discernible by people
> with
> > special sensibilities.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Ora:
> > > a mouth or mouth-like opening or orifice of the body
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers.
> > >
> > >
> > > Matt D
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Brandon Garretson <garretsontech@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: Tesla Coil Mailing List <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Fri, Aug 29, 2014 8:33 pm
> > > Subject: Re: [TCML] Muscle pain from tesla coil??
> > >
> > >
> > > HAHAHA!!!! You should tell her that after some research you realized
> that
> > > you accidentally reversed the magnetic energy of her Ora from positive
> to
> > > negative and the only way to change it back is to take a physics
> course.
> > >
> > >
> > >> I've never heard anything like this, has anyone else
> > experienced/witnessed
> > >>>> this?
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