Tesla and Other Derivitive and Integral Interests

Just a bunch of reading I've been doing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson
http://www.magnetricity.com/Tesla/Tesla_Biography.php
http://prometheus.al.ru/english/phisik/onichelson/onichelson.htm
http://home.earthlink.net/~drestinblack/generator.htm
http://freeenergynews.com/Directory/Electromagnetic/ / http://freeenergynews.com/
http://lhcathome.cern.ch/
http://www.casavaria.com/sentido/science/2006/06-0802-new-universe.htm

All of which was inspired by my recently higher than average research and general interest of Nikola Tesla, which not only includes just about all of the Wikipedia information I could possibly click through (see one of the RSS Comics listed on the right, possibly in the read more section by now, ;p) but also a great number of discovery channel/history channel type shows and additional researched reading as well. I'm convinced that Tesla's dreams should all be possible and I am happy to see that he had the same "serve all" mentality that modern open source projects have. I think everybody would do good in paying respects to the man that invented modern society. If you don't know of Tesla as the man who invented today then I recommend you do some reading :).

With all of that said, should anybody be interested in the same things or happen to take the time to read (and click on other topics) the information above, perhaps you'll be better prepared when I try to figure out how to put some more philosophical and theoretical ideas of mine to paper, which should be interesting.

The beautiful nature of existence and consciousness (what I consider to be the random anomaly that is the independent variable in our equation) astound and captivate me. I only hope that the research we are conducting during this lifetime is enough for us to come to a true understanding
of how the Universe works (however unlikely a final end-all solution is) and that we can truly begin utilizing and being a part of the universe rather than stumbling on neat coincidences. The potential proof for string theory and quantum mechanics are right around the corner, nanotechnology is now in development (in some ways anyway) potentially solving many energy, information transport and medical needs and we could be sitting just before the crest of the next wave of mankind (if the ancient cultures accurately predicted anything this could very well be in 2012 :p).

In stating this, when my research and life accomplishments and interests are studied, perhaps even posthumously, that I did it all for nothing. Mankind has been stuck in a recursive cycle for some time now constantly inventing new scratches for our itches, integrating things with each other and starting over again, all the while finding out "revolutionary" new concepts which better mankind, when really we haven't actually accomplished anything terribly extraordinary compared the magnificence of existence alone; more likely we have been an infestation eating away at the beauty of the system (which, in being an extreme unlikeliness is a beauty in and of itself).

Anyway, that's all for me today!

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If anybody happens to want to (either manually or by writing a simple spider) extract all the images of Tesla's Patents that would be crazy cool! I wish I had a little more time right now, but I don't. It shouldn't be too difficult, the images are stored as TIFFs. Another option might be to spider the images available on this site.

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-TheXenocide