AtD Tesla quote

[Mark Kohut]

Okay y'all, not doing this read without accepting challenges:
 
So, I put Tesla + force+ 'cosmic balance' into Google Books AND
http://books.google.com/books?id=h2DTNDFcC14C&pg=PA105&dq=Tesla+%2B+force+%2B+%22cosmic+balance%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Knw-T-7TBYrctgfmksC2BQ&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Tesla%20%2B%20force%20%2B%20%22cosmic%20balance%22&f=false
among a few others....
 
Seems this quote comes from an 1893 lecture largely about"'the interconnectedness of everything, life and matter"----quite a TRP resonance---
all of which might be understood as energy, electrical (or electromagnetic)?...very TRP in part two of ATD....& there is another quote from Tesla
very akin to that upcoming TRP line "Light is the secret determinant of history"....
 
And on the page from the book above, we read of Tesla saying, simply logically, that we would have to run out of non-renewable energy 
sources sometime if we keep using them up........then he points to waterfalls as a way to keep getting renewable energy
 and you may remember Kit's kinda mystical experience: "water falls, electricity flows--one flow becomes another, and thence into light. So is altitude transformed continuously to light"--p.99
 from this part of AtD...........
 
However Tesla 'failed', TRP seems to like and allude to some of the ideas and perhaps likes the way of failing like any preterite?
 
P.S. I heard on the wireless that Mike Daisy of the Steve Jobs monologue is doing Tesla next, if I heard right...
 
 


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From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> 
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: AtD Tesla quote

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."
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