Daniel 4 KJV
17 This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
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Tesla’s Colorado Springs Diary — A Day-by-Day Dive
June 24, 1899 — Conduction Through Rarefied Gas
Today, Tesla records a plan to produce a “conducting path of extremely low resistance”—suitable for “resonating circuits and other uses.” He notes that such a method “offers the possibility of attaining results which can not be reached otherwise.”
The method is based on a key observation: when a discharge of sufficient intensity—preferably at high frequency—is passed through a rarefied gas, the resistance of that gas can drop “far below that of the best conductors.” Under such conditions:
“An immense amount of energy may be passed and currents of a maximum strength such that they can not traverse a copper wire… may be made to traverse the rarefied gas.”
Tesla proposes building a circuit with a coiled glass tube containing rarefied gas, kept at a high degree of excitation and incandescence. This column would serve as a path for high-frequency currents, connected through a condenser and a grounded conductor (L), with an elevated terminal.
He offers a practical example: if currents of the same frequency from a distant transmitter were passed through this gas column, they could cause a “great rise of the e.m.f. on the terminals of conductor L,” which might then be used to operate a receiving instrument.
Rather than presenting this as a conclusive breakthrough, Tesla is clear—this is a plan based on prior observation, not a finished system. His final note:
“(To follow up.)”
(Primary Source: Nikola Tesla, Colorado Springs Notes, 1899–1900 (Nolit, Belgrade, 1978), June 24 entry, p. 45.)
