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Nikola Tesla

The thought of time travel isn't too far off.  In reality, the math that encompasses plasmas includes time reversals.  Here's the part that you may find odd, conductive metals are considered solid plasmas.  The math has a tendency to work around metals the same way as it does with plasmas.  The real difference is temperature and how it effects the metal in those equations.

In an arc, the electric field can produce pairs.  It's the basic avalanche effect.  The electric field propels a free electron, it builds up speed working to reach it's destination, and bumps into an atom.  That frees a second electron, and it accelerates towards the destination due to the electric field being present, then the two electrons slam into two more atoms, freeing up a total of four.  Here's the problem from the output of a Tesla coil, to the grounded side of the secondary, the demand for electrons/amperes of current is balanced.  The total number of electrons in motion is far greater than the coil's supply or demand, and the coil cannot provide you with anything that's free or in the air.  If you counted the electrons leaving the negative pole, the positive pole will only accept that many.  It doesn't matter how many electrons or ions were produced, you cannot tap into that.  It really doesn't even matter how many electrons were involved in the exchange through the air, the coil only takes as much as it gives to the air.  But, the true number of electrons in motion in the air is much higher due to the corona discharges and arcs that the coil ever needs or uses.

An antenna will receive a stronger signal from a Tesla coil throwing arcs into the air from a greater distance than a transmitter using the same amount of power at the same frequency.  Most of his work on the transmission of power really centered on that subject.

If anyone cares to experiment with time.  Maybe, it matters in microseconds.  This coil at this link does have a really odd phase shift association when put through a frequency sweep.  You won't know until you've really got one and test it.  As it approaches producing a secondary output that is 180 degrees out of phase from the initial start up, it actually cancels the single output, or reduces it's gain significantly.  But, all of the signal is not lost.  When you watch the video the frequency sweep is from 1KH all the way up to 20MHz, so I have to manage some settings on my oscilloscope just to keep an image that's perceivable on the scope.  I have to keep switching the time base, so all of the peaks and valleys are visible to observe the phase shift that's well over 360 degrees.  Any phase shift circuit you can build outside of this one coil, will only allow you a 180 phase shift, and no transformer does that trick to any extent.

Minor Time Warp

It is interesting that you brought up time travel.  MSNBC just had an article recently featuring Stephen Hawking:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37018725/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Hawking has some books too...tricky stuff to understand.

Being that electromagnetism is actually the same as light, warped time would be involved.  The way I understand it is that if you were an electron or photon, you would be moving at light speed or near light speed and time for you would be different than those standing still.  I read somewhere that certain particles can somehow "live longer."  The catch is that we cannot travel as they do.  We poor stiffs are not allowed past the light speed barrier.  Maybe we would have to try wormholes.  There is a quantum side to electricity which can boggle the mind.  Electrons are weird little critters for sure.  It is said that one electron can go through two slits at once.  Some say they are also in other dimensions...all weird.

What do you think of string theory?

I don't so much believe in wormholes.  What I do believe in is Time Potential, like a voltage.  Just like at any time, or point in space any object traveling faster than light will travel back in time, Einstein's Theory of Relativity and Special Relativity, really only point to the fact that the potential is there.  Gravity Warps time, a photon in transit experiences no time, a muon can experience only a few fractions of a second traveling near light speed.

Things that warp time, like gravity, any concentration of energy, magnetic fields, all exist to show that there are alternate means of dilating time.

So, when it comes to matter, the potential is more like static electricity or a shockwave.  The closer you get to hypersonic in air, the closer you are to having the projectile in a vacuum.  The closer you get to light speed, the closer you get to where the permittivity and permeability of space produce a shockwave that places 1/2 projectile in a compression front, and the other half in negative time.  The space time foam doesn't work with all matter in the same direction.

CP Violation of the Big Bang

So, the first parallel Universe, you would or could drop into, time progresses backwards in.  The Future of that Universe is the past of ours.  Our Universe's end, is the beginning of that Universe.  It consists of anti-matter in bulk from the initial Big Bang.  That is in so much as to say, that time is completely separated from Space as a dimension that co-exists with space, just like permittivity and permeability are two separate measurable entities.  An imaginary perfect space, excludes all three, time, permittivity and permeability.

Now, I believe you can stretch the permittivity and permeability of space and potentially access negative time, or anti-time.  That would be done with a 3 phase RF system.  In short, you would build a plasma container and spin a magnetic field using a true 3 phase sine wave source.  The interference doesn't ever stop the position of the magnetic lines from being connected to the opposing pole.  So, an empty jar would be used to circulate a plasma and utilize centripetal force to produce a perfect vacuum, then a hyper vacuum caused by stretching the permittivity and permeability of space to saturation.  Then the magnetic lines will snap in center, and reverse polarity.  When that happens, and continues, negative time is accessable as a power loss to the system.  Energy travelling in the opposite direction in time, only represents a loss.  We have nothing to detect a radio wave pegged on a dimensional line of time that is inverted.  All of our equipment only works as time progresses forward.  So, all we could or would detect is a loss of energy and a reversal of the magnetic field lines.  Just imagine electrons moving through a coil, if you reverse time for just that coil and observe it as time progresses forward the direction the electrons are moving is now reversed.  That would in respect reverse the polarity of that magnetic field that came from outside of the hypervacuum.  The truth is, a rotating magnetic field has the same mass as a photon, which is zero.  So, it can rotate faster than light.  When you look at Tesla's Columbus Egg, that form of coil winding, toroid, that utilizes destructive interference to force magnetic lines to be ejected from the core, looks to be more ideal than separate solenoid or rectangular windings, like you'd normally find on the stator of a squirrel cage motor.  You would want to use superposition to center your rotating magnetic field in the plasma.  Then use a frequency sweep to speed up the ions and electrons to a velocity that keeps them away from the very center.  At a point where a rotating magnetic field inside the plasma is travelling faster than light, negative time should be measurable as a reversed field between the pole pieces of the rotating magnetic field.  That's where you would place a coupling loop antenna to extract RF, that is riding negative time.  Then the energy loss of the system should jump up, and the radiated energy/escaping radio waves should drop in intensity based upon the volume of that envelope.

The skin voltage from that isn't dangerous.  But, until you experience it, I won't tell you what happens.  If you'd like a training film, watch "Groundhog Day" starring Bill Murray.  All you have to do to get out of that kind of situation, is not touch that wire.

I find the concept of string theory enthralling......Have you read "Physics of the Impossible" by Michio Kaku?

Sometimes, I can't really agree with Kaku.  I've watched his TV Shows, and things like Plasma Sails really dictate that some of the things that he believes require allot of energy, really need to control allot of energy.  That doesn't really require allot of energy because, most of it is there in the plasma/vacuum of space.  Quite a few scientists are puzzled by what would happen if you took a simple 3 phase RF signal out there.  Being in space makes a big difference in respect to being on Earth.  Most of the math points to that there will be a tremendous magnetic field produced by the rotating magnetic field that is a product of the particles, protons and electrons on space.  This throws off all of the thought of energy requirements of reaction drives or rocket engines.  If you can control huge waves on the ocean, you can surf the same waves.  If it were easy to generate a big wave, why generate big power?