According to this article, Tesla meant there was little point in splitting atoms to gain energy. He thought that the cosmic rays impinging on radioactive matter is what causes the matter to radiate.
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I recently found an article from 2010 that talks about the Sun having a strange influence on readings form radioactive matter.
Link here Could there be a connection, did these scientists find what Tesla found decades ago?
I have been unable to look further into this, and do not know much about the case myself. Did I miss something? Just thought I should throw this out there and hear your thoughts.
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«He deprecates the popular idea of deriving motive power from the disintegration of atoms, or change of elements, and characterizes such schemes as worse than those involved in perpetual motion machines. He holds that radio-activity is due, not to forces in the substances themselves, but to a cosmic ray, the discovery of which he announced in 1897. In other words, an element like radium emits radiations merely because the cosmic ray impinges upon it, producing these secondary effects.
The element itself has no such energy, it all comes from the cosmic ray. Tesla says that he has proved the existence of this ray by mathematical analysis and experiment, finding both in perfect agreement. It would seem to follow, from Tesla’s theory, that the radiation from radiums, or similar bodies, would change from place to place on the globe; and this has recently proved to be an actual fact, as determined by a Russian investigator.»
The element itself has no such energy, it all comes from the cosmic ray. Tesla says that he has proved the existence of this ray by mathematical analysis and experiment, finding both in perfect agreement. It would seem to follow, from Tesla’s theory, that the radiation from radiums, or similar bodies, would change from place to place on the globe; and this has recently proved to be an actual fact, as determined by a Russian investigator.»
Link here Could there be a connection, did these scientists find what Tesla found decades ago?
I have been unable to look further into this, and do not know much about the case myself. Did I miss something? Just thought I should throw this out there and hear your thoughts.
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