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…and I’m the little kid digging through it. There are a precious few pieces in the lego box that are powerful keys…pieces that seem to fit with everything.
I watched a movie recently called “The Prestige”…very good flick about a couple of feuding illusionists…well worth the watch. I, of course, was drawn to the suggestions the movie made about the work of Nikola Tesla during his stay in Colorado Springs near the turn of the 20th century.

During his stay there, he ran some incredible experiments in which he remotely powered light bulbs by transferring electomagnetic energy via finely tuned resonant earth structures. Â The interesting bit is that this isn’t so far gone from the work done recently by Soljacic in using near-term strongly coupled evanescent magnetic waves to transfer energy.

• Side note: my Aunt Laurie’s ex-husband Ray once tried to explain to me 10 years ago an “invention” of his about a bunch of rods in the ground or something…needless to say I had no idea what he was talking about then. Â Well, congratulations Ray…I finally figured out what in the sam hell you were talking about, but guess what: jigs up!

The point: the concept of resonance is a powerful one…best keep it in the back of my mind and try to apply it whenever possible. Add it to that “special” box of legos…the box you put only the good stuff in, and hide from everyone else.
My university professors tried to drill it into us, but like all things in engineering, the viewpoint was too tightly constrained. I think my dad was right when he said that physicists kick everyones asses. Needless to say…they also have the egos that come with such power.

Ok…time to keep working on the ga-rage. Yes, thats right…the ga-rage (English accent).