AtD Tesla quote

[Joseph Tracy]

Way Cool.  Rockin the google.
On Feb 17, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> 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...
>  
>  
> 
> 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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