TITLE:
An Entropy Approach to Tesla’s Discovery of Wireless Power Transmission
AUTHORS:
Salama Abdelhady
KEYWORDS:
Entropy; Tesla’s Discovery; Radiant Energy; Electromagnetic Waves
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Electromagnetic Analysis and Applications,
Vol.5 No.4,
April
11,
2013
ABSTRACT:
Following
an entropy approach, the electric current can be postulated as a flow of
electromagnetic waves that has an electric potential. Such postulate is
verified in this article by results of experimental measurement then it is
applied to review Tesla’s discovery of wireless power transmission. Tesla
discovered the wireless transmission of electric power during his operation in
an entirely new domain of physics based on abrupt discharging of electrostatic
charges. He realized that electrons
were not responsible for such discovered phenomena. So, he called the new
energy as “Radiant Electricity”. He didn’t
identify that the true nature of electric current was a flow of electromagnetic waves that can be normally radiated through
air. So, he proposed the term “Aether gas” to describe the discovered transfer
of the electric charges by radiation from his designed tower, though air, to
specified receivers. Following an entropy approach, the nature of the discovered
radiated energy can be identified as electromagnetic waves that have an
electric potential. So, the followed approach succeeds in eliminating the
confusing observations of Tesla’s measurements in his famous experiment and the
confusions found in modern literature that deals with such energy as an “Ambiguous
Radiant Energy”.