Nikola Tesla Books
IN SEARCH OF NIKOLA TESLA is a curiosity which occurs in many of the other fundamental equations of physics as well. To each solution, or physical situation, there corresponded its twin or mirror image. These mirror-image solutions were called the advanced solutions and take the form of electromagnetic waves moving backwards in time. In a sense the advanced solutions were the light waves and radio broadcasts of some parallel universe in which clocks run in reverse. Puharich had totally misunderstood the nature of advanced solutions by thinking that they travelled âfaster than light' and took the form of magnetic wormholes. In simple terms these hypothetical signals would violate causality if they ever existed in nature. We would see the light from a distant searchlight before the beam had been switched on. An astronaut communicating by advanced signals would hear the voice of Mission Control before the controller had begun to speak. Such signals could only exist in a world in which time ran backwards. Far from being neglected, as Puharich suggested, advanced signals had been well studied. The brilliant physicist, Richard Feynmann, had tried to use the solutions in one of his earliest theories. When looking at the problem of radiation and thermodynamics in a black hole, I had once posed the possibility of advanced signals being able to escape from its centre. As to wormholes through the ground â well, this was pure nonsense as well. The idea, I knew, came from some work by the imaginative American physicist, John Wheeler, who had once suggested that submicroscopic wormholes which existed in a fifth dimension could interconnect parts of the universe. Although I knew that Puharich's theory contained several errors and misunderstandings I was certainly enjoying it. The ideas were crazy but so were quarks and tachyons, white holes and multiple universes, and all the other far-out toys that respectable physicists had invented to play with. Puharich's inexhaustible source of energy was the vacuum state out of which pairs of elementary particles were supposed to be created. His actual argument was a little faulty here but the outlandish idea of a vacuum which contains an infinite amount of energy is cherished by a great many theoretical physicists and it amounts to sacrilege to doubt its existence. 95
