AtD Tesla quote

[Henry M]

Like many diamonds, Tesla was brilliant, but flawed.

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Henry Mu
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On 2/16/12, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to know the context of this Tesla quote re. force, but here's
> my observation:
>
>  Sometimes in the morning trudging on the Stairmaster I put "Big Cats
> Diary" on Animal Planet channel.  Just before a baby gazelle (or
> whatever, babies are the easiest prey) is caught and devoured I
> sometime quickly change the channel.  Sometimes the mother cat brings
> the not-yet-dead prey back for her cubs to "play" (practice hunt) and
> kill it themselves.  Isn't this an extraordinary display of force?
> This display might upset me, but I don't think it upsets the cosmic
> balance (unless "upset" is the natural order:  ie. We've been ejected
> from Eden, and live in an upset creation).
>
> Tesla was on the correct side of AC vs. DC, and he was before his time
> in that.  In most every other aspects of science he was mostly a
> metaphysics theorist, but a lovable one.
>
> Regarding space & Einstein, he was laughably quaint (and wrong):
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
>
> Tesla was critical of Einstein's relativity work, calling it:
>
> ...[a] magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and
> makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a
> beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king ... its
> exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than
> scientists ...[84]
>
> Tesla also argued:
>
> I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can
> have no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties.
> He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own making. Of
> properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the
> space. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes
> curved is equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing.
> I, for one, refuse to subscribe to such a view
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> "Whenever action is born from force, though it be infinitesimal, the
>> cosmic balance is upset and the universal motion results."
>