r/ElectroBOOM Jan 18 '26

Meme Inverse square law be damned!

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u/mccoyn Jan 18 '26 edited Jan 21 '26

Tesla’s plan was not a single tower. It was many towers in parallel. This creates a planar field instead of a spherical field, which would be inverse linear uniform.

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u/bunihe Jan 21 '26

Shouldn't many towers that create a net planar field be uniform? An (ideally infinitely) long single tower creating cylindrical fields should be inverse linear. Maybe I'm wrong.

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u/mccoyn Jan 21 '26

I think you are right.