AtD Tesla quote

[Joseph Tracy]

I feel like I need more context to understand what Tesla was saying about force.  Predator prey relations certainly seem a natural part of balance. So, one could argue, is the self destruction which becomes ever more plausible through the forces humans exercise, usually with a similar predator-prey logic. 
  Is he possibly talking about force as a violation of perceived rules of justice, where we push against our own intuitive feeling for the rules of the game?It certainly doesn't sound like normal neutral use of the term.  
On Feb 16, 2012, at 3:10 PM, David Morris 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."