During an archive search for Thomas Malloy's original post on
Ventura's audio interview with Podkletnov, I happened to turn
up the following Beaty post which is rather relevant to the
Podketnov-Hutchison-Shoulders Effect.
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Tesla article. hoax, but a good one?
William Beaty
Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:28:22 -0700
Here's an old link I stumbled across once again.
I don't think we've discussed it here:
Tesla unknown manuscript
http://farshores.org/wmtesla.htm
The missing details about hardware, and all the
convenient excuses, clearly says "hoax." But still
the concepts are pretty cool. If not Tesla himself,
the author is well-read with considerable experience
in crackpot physics. I particularly liked the part
about the radial smoke patterns and weight changes
(stolen right from the Podkletnov story?)
Imagine if aether did exist, if moving aether-blobs
could be produced and manipulated with HV equipment,
could provide propulsion, cancel inertia, supply
energy, etc. Build a Tesla-based electrogravity
aircraft? Fill your garage with glowing ball
lightnings? Or just take cosmic potshots at the
Siberian tundra.
On the other hand, maybe it's not a hoax...
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On starting to read the account passages like....
"There was an old writing book inside the helmet,
apparently used as a lining. The writing book had
thin and partially burnt covers producing the smell
of mould. All its yellowing sheets were full of notes
written in ink faded under the influence of time..."
....seem penned by some later day Robert Louis Stevenson
and as fictional as Treasure Island. However, reading further I
couldn't help but be astonished how close the insights came to my
own Beta-atmosphere view of things. Indeed, but for my own
publications which have a very different starting point than Tesla -
or his doppelganger - I feel I would not be able to defend myself
from the charge of plagiarism.
Now obviously, the author and the story about the existence of a
manuscript, etc., is so much moonshine - but a hoax? I very much doubt
it. I think it more likely that the author is someone who believed
what he wrote and wanted to promulgate it - but was too shy or afraid
to attach his own name to these beliefs out of embarrassment or even
possibly, fear for his career prospects.
Frank Grimer
