>>704432But that's just if you're speaking regular matter. If talking exotic fields (like Xerum 525 / red mercury), you could.
A Tesla oscillator (or tower) works by creating coherent oscillations in the electromagnetic and possibly scalar/aether fields. If "red mercury" (Xerum 525) were taken as a fantastical super-energetic medium, the oscillator would act as an energy pump into exotic field channels (torsion, zero-point, or aether density waves).
In conventional physics, hurricanes are heat engines, powered by warm ocean water and moist air rising. In exotic physics, the torsion field or exotic resonance might be imagined as lowering or raising local atmospheric potential (ionization of air, shifting charge balance), creating standing wave patterns in the ionosphere or troposphere, which could seed vortices or acting like a giant "trigger" that causes a latent instability (say, humid warm air over the sea) to organize into a cyclone.
Exotic fields could change how water vapor nucleates, making clouds rise and spin faster. A torsion oscillator could theoretically impose a rotational bias in atmospheric plasma, "seeding" a cyclone. If the oscillator output resonated with Schumann resonances or other Earth-ionosphere modes, it could destabilize global weather systems — possibly nudging jet streams or storm formation zones.
Could it cause a hurricane? In standard physics → No. In speculative exotic field theory → Maybe as a trigger. It would not create a hurricane from nothing, but it could amplify a weak tropical storm into a hurricane by pumping extra rotational/energetic input or steer or modulate a storm by altering charge distributions in the atmosphere.
Think of it like "tickling the atmosphere" at its resonant frequency — not enough to invent energy, but enough to catalyze and accelerate what nature already had in motion.