Nikola Tesla Books
IN SEARCH OF NIKOLA TESLA out ideas yourself; stuff on black holes, time going backwards, all that sort of thing. Don't they sound crazy too?" 'All right, you win,' I began to laugh. 'If Tesla isn't a crank, then I suppose that he must have invented something very special. He talks about sending power right through the earth and, at other times, he says that he's using the voltage difference between the earth and the upper atmosphere.' 'But could he really have discovered something?" 'No. I don't really think so - but I did wonder if he'd found some way to develop a self-contained beam...no, I don't think it's possible.' I paused and began to think aloud. 'Some sort of plasma beam which could link the transmitter and receiver.' My friend's face began to light up as I talked and I wondered why. In the end I asked him if it was important to him that Tesla had been right. 'Well, I'm not a scientist but I read a lot. There are so many things we don't understand. Things that science won't talk about, they're all pushed under the carpet...take flying saucers for example.' I took a guess at what he was trying to say. âYou mean that you've got a feeling that science has left something out? That there's something important about the world and science never includes it?' He thought for a little, then began to speak again. 'I don't know if I'd put it that way but maybe you're right. Sometimes scientists seem too clever - you see them on television and they talk about the world and how everything can be explained. But there are other things like E.S.P. and flying saucers and now there's your Tesla business, and all they do is laugh at it.' 'I think you're dissatisfied at the scientific picture of nature,' I suggested and then realized that I too was trying to laugh off his suggestion. 'Maybe there should be something more. Could we really have left out something?" He smiled back at me. 'I don't know. But I'm interested in what you're doing with Tesla. This new power he talks about, out of the air. You said it's got something to do with high voltages; could it be the same thing as thunderstorms?" I shook my head. 'No, I don't think so. You're right that thunderstorms are electrical and they do contain a great deal of energy, but I don't think 67
