It all started at the turn of the 20th century[edit] Then the faith in progress was not so unshakable and the new discoveries were skeptical. It seemed that all the laws of physics were open, and scientists around the world were faced with the question of clarifying existing concepts. Therefore, as if the thunder in the clear sky, both for the scientific community and for ordinary citizens was the news of experiments conducted in the laboratory of Tesla. This scientist, working on the properties of the electromagnetic field, has discovered hitherto unknown properties of the strongest character. Realizing the full force of the effect, and this is not much or little influence on the very origins of the universe - on natural phenomena, he wanted to stop the study, but the outbreak of the First World War raised the question of the use of the discovery for military purposes.