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What happen if Nikola Tersla is not born
Nikola Tesla.
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No A/C Current- Power would be from reactors right down the street..
No long range power.
Cars would probably be less efficient as well, I suppose. (I'm thinking of charging systems, like the alternators/generators if ya have a older car)
I just imagine... driving through Lancaster on the TurnPike and then all the sudden see like 50 reactors within 10 miles....
oh boy
No long range power.
Cars would probably be less efficient as well, I suppose. (I'm thinking of charging systems, like the alternators/generators if ya have a older car)
I just imagine... driving through Lancaster on the TurnPike and then all the sudden see like 50 reactors within 10 miles....
oh boy
We would all be using Thomas Edison's DC current only - instead of Tesla and Westinghouse AC Current -
Direct current flows steadily in one direction, and in 1882 Edison used it to light part of lower Manhattan from his Pearl Street generating station. It was safe at household voltage and easy to understand, but it had a serious flaw: it could not be easily converted to a higher or lower voltage, so power stations had to sit within about a mile of every customer they served.
Alternating current reversed direction many times a second, which meant it could pass through a transformer, jump to very high voltage for the trip across the countryside, then step back down to something safe once it reached a house or business. That single feature let one AC power station serve an entire region instead of a single neighborhood.
So in the end AC won out for higher end voltage, but DC is used in millions of low end power devices (i.e. anything that uses a battery)
Direct current flows steadily in one direction, and in 1882 Edison used it to light part of lower Manhattan from his Pearl Street generating station. It was safe at household voltage and easy to understand, but it had a serious flaw: it could not be easily converted to a higher or lower voltage, so power stations had to sit within about a mile of every customer they served.
Alternating current reversed direction many times a second, which meant it could pass through a transformer, jump to very high voltage for the trip across the countryside, then step back down to something safe once it reached a house or business. That single feature let one AC power station serve an entire region instead of a single neighborhood.
So in the end AC won out for higher end voltage, but DC is used in millions of low end power devices (i.e. anything that uses a battery)
What if the big bang never happened, then it would be dark as well.
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This cannot happen because we we would never know
I suspect things would not be much different. Alternating current would still exist, and someone else would have done the work. But there is no way to know, because he was born, and that cannot be changed, so we can only speculate. Speculation !== experimentation.
People VASTLY overrate Tesla's accomplishments.
Nothing important would be different.
Fun fact: Tesla didn't even believe in electrons.
Here's a jump-off point:
(It's a long video that is well researched.)
As always, research before believing. Don't just take his word for it, nor my word.
The Wikipedia article is also worth reading, especially for what it doesn't say:
And, no... No, he and Edison weren't enemies. In fact, they seldom met. Edison even let Tesla patent work he did for hire.
It's not that he didn't do some cool things; it's that he's vastly overrated. However, we'd not be lacking in anything had he not existed. He didn't even really invent the 'Tesla Coil'.
Also, another fun fact: did you know that you crawl faster than individual electrons move through a copper wire?
Nothing important would be different.
Fun fact: Tesla didn't even believe in electrons.
Here's a jump-off point:
(It's a long video that is well researched.)
As always, research before believing. Don't just take his word for it, nor my word.
The Wikipedia article is also worth reading, especially for what it doesn't say:
And, no... No, he and Edison weren't enemies. In fact, they seldom met. Edison even let Tesla patent work he did for hire.
It's not that he didn't do some cool things; it's that he's vastly overrated. However, we'd not be lacking in anything had he not existed. He didn't even really invent the 'Tesla Coil'.
Also, another fun fact: did you know that you crawl faster than individual electrons move through a copper wire?
Wasn't Tesla also trying to prove his theory he had about the great pyramids being power plants and been seeing a lot of people today starting to do the same. They only haven't figure out how exactly it would work yet.
Yup. Sometime in the 80s, or maybe the 90s, people started believing all sorts of stuff about him, and he had another round of fame. Today, with the internet, that's amplified.
Remember: There's no such thing as valid pseudo-science. If it was valid, we'd just call it science.
And, another fun fact, due to the mass of the pyramids, time moves more slowly in their vicinity. It's a very trivial amount, but it is slower. It's 'gravitational time dilation' in effect. It's imperceptible, of course. It has nothing to do with their shape (or history). It's just that they are massive. Well, the 'Great Pyramids' are pretty massive.
I had to fact check that. Turns out a garden snail can outpace electrons, the Guiness World Record Holder snail and literally all others.
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They move through copper wire at a very slow rate. In a standard household 12-gauge copper wire carrying 10 amps, electrons drift at a rate of roughly 0.02 cm per second.
This confuses many people because it's pretty much instant when you flip the light switch. That's electrons functioning as a wave vs electrons as an individual particle. Also, the wire in question is already stuffed with electrons. When they're given a path, they head that direction.
I don't know if any snails move 0.02 cm per second. That's roughly a 0.5 inches per minute. Is that faster?
To make it clearer, I don't really know anything about snails. That's where my knowledge isn't enough. There could be faster snails. I just can't say that I know anything about snails.
That said, I could get into the hobby of racing snails. I'd call mine 'ess-car', just so I could say, "Look at that ess-car go!" (I'm not even sorry for that.)
So, I'm not actually qualified to opine on the speed of snails. I do have enough of a physics background to know a bit about electrons.
NOTE: The speed of electricity through said copper wire would be almost the speed of light.
Another fun fact that'll confuse some people: It takes an individual photon well over 100,000 years just to reach the surface of the star we call Sol (or Sun). No, it's not that the star is that large. It's just REALLY dense.
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