Electric Sun Quote from Nikola Tesla

[Corona]

In the book "Tesla, A novel" by Tad Wise there is supposedly a quote from Tesla. I find it extremely interesting, but I have trouble verifying its source. Does anybody know more about this?

http://www.doyletics.com/arj/teslaman.pdf

The Sun as Charged Body: Tesla figured the Sun to be "an incandescent body carrying a
high electrical charge and emitting showers of tiny particles." Although the Sun's source of
energy is thought now to be nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium, no one can explain why
the temperature of the atmosphere of the Sun is so much greater than its interior. A charged
object moving in an electric field as Tesla postulated would have exactly such a higher
temperature in its outer surroundings.

[303vegas]

If anyone knows, yer man Tesla knows!

[tayga]

In the book "Tesla, A novel" by Tad Wise there is supposedly a quote from Tesla. I find it extremely interesting, but I have trouble verifying its source. Does anybody know more about this?

http://www.doyletics.com/arj/teslaman.pdf

The Sun as Charged Body: Tesla figured the Sun to be "an incandescent body carrying a
high electrical charge and emitting showers of tiny particles." Although the Sun's source of
energy is thought now to be nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium, no one can explain why
the temperature of the atmosphere of the Sun is so much greater than its interior. A charged
object moving in an electric field as Tesla postulated would have exactly such a higher
temperature in its outer surroundings.

Very interesting and a great find. The book being reviewed, however, is not the novel but Tesla: Man Out of Time
by Margaret Cheney which is a biography not a fictional biography.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews ... ewpoints=1

[Corona]

Very interesting and a great find. The book being reviewed, however, is not the novel but Tesla: Man Out of Time
by Margaret Cheney which is a biography not a fictional biography.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews ... ewpoints=1

thanks for clearing that up! wafter searching online I even found a free copy:

http://r3zn8d.files.wordpress.com/2012/ ... cheney.pdf

here is the full excerpt:

With hundreds of thousands of volts of high-frequency currents surging through his body, he held in his hand this magnificent creation, a working model of the incandescent sun. With it he demonstrated what he believed to be cosmic rays. The sun, he reasoned, is an incandescent body carrying a high electrical charge and emitting showers of tiny particles, each of which is energized by its great velocity. But, not being enclosed in a glass, the sun permits its rays to strike out into space.
Tesla was convinced that all space was filled with these particles, constantly bombarding Earth or other matter, just as in his carbon-button lamp the hardest material was shattered into atomic dust.
One of the manifestations of such bombardment, he said, was the aurora borealis. Although no record exists of his methods, he announced that he had detected such cosmic rays., measured their energy, and found them moving with a velocity of hundreds of millions of volts.
The more sober physicists and engineers in his audience, hearing such outrageous claims, kept their counsel. But where was the evidence?

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Unfortunately it goes on from there with the standard model of the sun. But I wish there was more from his work- looks like he was spot on!

[tayga]

With hundreds of thousands of volts of high-frequency currents surging through his body, he held in his hand this magnificent creation, a working model of the incandescent sun. With it he demonstrated what he believed to be cosmic rays. The sun, he reasoned, is an incandescent body carrying a high electrical charge and emitting showers of tiny particles, each of which is energized by its great velocity. But, not being enclosed in a glass, the sun permits its rays to strike out into space.
Tesla was convinced that all space was filled with these particles, constantly bombarding Earth or other matter, just as in his carbon-button lamp the hardest material was shattered into atomic dust.
One of the manifestations of such bombardment, he said, was the aurora borealis. Although no record exists of his methods, he announced that he had detected such cosmic rays., measured their energy, and found them moving with a velocity of hundreds of millions of volts.
The more sober physicists and engineers in his audience, hearing such outrageous claims, kept their counsel. But where was the evidence?

Unfortunately it goes on from there with the standard model of the sun. But I wish there was more from his work- looks like he was spot on!

The main criticism of Margaret Cheney's work is that it is poorly substantiated ie she doesn't provide evidence or corroboration for much of the story she tells. That said, I'd have to wonder where the ideas came from if she'd just made them up herself.