Re: About the skin effect in humans

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Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net> 


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Subject: Re: About the skin effect in humans


 > Original poster: "mercurus2000" <mercurus2000-at-cox-dot-net>
 >
 > Well trust me, Tesla himself said how many volts where in his coils. Just
 > look up some info on him, especially biographies and interviews, he
explains
 > how he set his stunts up. I mean this is the man himself, I find it
somewhat
 > odd that many people here don't seem to know that much about the man that
 > made the devices your building and his great work. If anyone is to know
what
 > the effects were, it was Tesla himself.
 > BTW, Many of Tesla's close friends even witnessed Tesla producing small
bits
 > of ball lightning and rolling them down his suitcoat arm, and actually
 > lighting the air in his lab itself a glow with spectactors in it, without
a
 > light source. 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.:)

There are an enormous number of biographies and works about Tesla that,
shall we say, lack rigor.  Tesla was not only a gifted engineer, but quite
the showman and promoter.  However, as has been discussed at great length on
this list (among other places), actual details of how he did some things is
hard to come by.  There are also cases of "creative description", often
repeated and enhanced by later writers (consider, for example, the famous
132 foot sparks from the Colorado Springs system)

Whether or not Tesla ran RF power through himself, and survived, doesn't say
much about the safety of doing it.  You'll have to admit that there is a
whole lot more knowledge about RF propagation AND about the effects on
humans than there was 100 years ago.

As for Tesla taking secrets to the grave:  Aren't you aware that Tesla,
Edison, and Marconi are all living on a high Tepui in the remote Venezuelan
hinterlands, having had eternal youth conferred on them by an application of
potentials of high voltage and high frequency?  <grin>

But really... The most rookie fresh-out-of-school engineer today knows a LOT
more about some aspects of electromagnetics and propagation of EM waves than
Tesla did.  Tesla did have a conceptual gift and an amazing ability to
conceive of an overall system, but in terms of raw information available,
there's been a lot discovered, both in terms of basic knowledge, and in
terms of analytical techniques.