Tesla's Axiom
There is no energy in matter
except that absorbed
from the medium.
Lord Kelvin gave us a picture of a dying universe, of a clockwork wound up and running down, inevitably doomed to come to a full stop in the far, far off future.
If indeed the universe was "wound up" at the so called "Big Bang," how is it possible that the galaxy still revolves, that the planets orbit the sun, their moons around them, Earth spinning on its axis, and electrons orbiting (or whatever electrons do) around the nucleus of atoms? As Tesla wrote in his 1932 Essay, The Eternal Source of Energy of the Universe . . .,
It meant that the driving force of the universe was steadily decreasing and that ultimately all of its motive energy will be exhausted, none remaining available for mechanical work. In the macro-cosmos, with its countless conception, this process might require billion of years for its consummation; but in the infinitesimal worlds of the micro-cosmos it must have been quickly completed.
How much energy has been used to make the Earth rotate on its axis for its estimated 4.5 billion years? How much energy has been expended in the movement of countless electrons around their nuclei? As Tesla wrote of Lord Kelvin's clockwork view, "It was a gloomy view incompatible with artistic, scientific and mechanical sense." It was pretty obvious to Tesla that the energy in matter had to come from the "medium" - and what is that medium? Space/Aether/Akasha/Primordial Sound.
If all energy is supplied to matter from without then this all important function must be performed by the medium. Yes--but how?
I pondered over this oldest and greatest of all riddles of physical science a long time in vain, despairingly reminded of the words of the poet:
Wo fass ich dich unendliche Natur?
Euch Bruste wo Ihr Quellen alles Lebens
An denen Himmel und Erd— hangt. . .
Where, boundless nature, can I hold you fast?
And where you breasts? Wells that sustain
All life -- the heaven and the earth are nursed
Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe